boof-chamber on Nostr: For a small minority of privileged people the alleviation of some of the worst ...

For a small minority of privileged people the alleviation of some of the worst symptoms of mental illness can be achieved. This is an impossibility for most of mankind however, as these “healthy” people are those who can receive the psychological care that most can not, that can enjoy the luxuries that most can not, that can ignore the existence of forms of oppression that the overwhelming majority of people simply can not. Furthermore, the health achieved by the privileged is a faux health at best. Only the worst symptoms of mental illness can really go away for these people, as they remain chained to the class society that guarantees the persistence of illness. Those who lack such privilege have no other choice but to recognize the liberatory aspect of mental illness. They must see proof of their will to live a good life in the pain of life under capitalism. They must find the desire to initiate change within their disgust with the status quo. They must discover their essential humanity in the suffering caused by inhumane capitalism. Ultimately, they must understand that mental illness is more than a simple affliction, because it contains a revolutionary aspect, that is, the impetus for struggle towards the total transformation of society.