EP 392: Self Help, LLC: Winners & Losers
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The Great Self Help Ecosystem
The 19 70 saw an explosion of survivalist metaphors among self help texts. This is when we get phrases like looking out for number one. It's when society is, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, divided into the moral categories of winners and losers. The project of the greater self help ecosystem is helping us to navigate the insecurity and uncertainty that have come to define our lives over the last forty years.
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