Normalizing misery through privatizing stress enabled the rise of capitalist realism.

Evidence

If you want to look at the rise of capitalist realism, one can also look at the decline of anti-psychiatry. As anti-psychiatry declined, then capitalist realism grew. I think there’s a relation there between the two. That normalisation of misery as part of the privatisation of stress has been absolutely central to the rise of capitalist realism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2131

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties the whole book’s thesis to a history of mental health treatment.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing the actual historical relation between anti-psychiatry’s decline and neoliberal ‘realism.’
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s required realism is essentially a normalized collective depression — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1907; Capitalist realism’s required realism is an escalating series of depressive thresholds; Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Depression mirrors capitalist realism, rendering collective problems as personal failures #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2217
• Capitalist realism’s required realism is an escalating series of depressive thresholds #expands (0.75)