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Freddie Deboer: How Intra-Elite Competition Turned Mental Illness Into a Meme

From the New World

CHAPTER

The Colonization of Performativeness

A lot of the interactions that people derive, not even status, but basic human contact are really played up. I think this is a pre-common pattern where people are just not able to interact in a way that kind of turns off these social anxieties. And so the outlet that you would have for basically expressing very human flaws, very normal understandable flaws has to be vented towards these kind of labels or whatever mental illness it is. It really is a kind of like tragic type of elite competition.

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