From Locura en Argentina: In this piece, writer Bernabé De Vinsenci challenges the notion of contemporary normality as a legitimate attitude within an apocalyptic social process. He presents the critical state of everything we do to belong as responses to the demand to attain and maintain social status. The subjective establishment no longer acknowledges its precarious condition. It denies its status below the poverty line, yet it draws on the reservoir of capitalism: maxed-out credit cards, a socially conscious display of happiness, and a healthy dose of “rebellious” correctness gleaned from progressivism.
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This analysis sounds a bit sus, but I’m not going to wade through translated Spanish.
In any case, becoming “normal” should not be the goal of mental health care. Becoming stronger and more able to cope should be. Each person is different; there is no true “normal.”
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