Healing from trauma is messy and uneven and demands rest and downtime and other things incompatible with full-on capitalist grind.
Which is why capitalist culture is *much* more tolerant of crutches like addiction and abusive behavior than it is of healing.
Which is why capitalist culture is *much* more tolerant of crutches like addiction and abusive behavior than it is of healing.
You can drink yourself to sleep every night and wake up and still be a productive worker for capitalism the next day.
Taking some time off for mental health, though?
Demanding boundaries that allow you to process your shit fully outside of work?
That hurts the bottom line.
Taking some time off for mental health, though?
Demanding boundaries that allow you to process your shit fully outside of work?
That hurts the bottom line.
Capitalism does not want us to get well.
It wants us too worn out and broken down to summon the energy to stand up for ourselves.
Your healing is not in its self-interest.
It wants us too worn out and broken down to summon the energy to stand up for ourselves.
Your healing is not in its self-interest.
*crutch was an unintentionally ableist metaphor.
What I mean is coping mechanism.
Crutches are used by disabled people for basic mobility needs, not as avoidance tactics.
What I mean is coping mechanism.
Crutches are used by disabled people for basic mobility needs, not as avoidance tactics.
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