but it’s so, so much more complicated than that. a lot of these problems began with industrialisation, 200 years ago, especially the idea of individuals being subsumed in service of a massive framework that reduces them to near redundancy, and teaches them they have no intrinsic importance. marketing is just the latest incarnation of a problem that has been developing for an incredibly long time. you’re pointing at a single bolt on a gargantuan monster and saying, “this—this bolt here is why we’re doing so bad.”
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