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If society is making us sick, how can we heal?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Culture and Its Vices and Values

If the culture is disconnected and disordered, then so are we. How can we not be? Well, the culture is going to shape the views and behaviors of its members. I think we're so buried under the debris of the culture and its vices and values that we scarcely know what's underneath it. It's really about capitalist ideology, consumerism. These things feed our pathologies and produce very twisted and impoverished conceptions of happiness and health. And it's part of why you get this obsession with status and competition and attractiveness.

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