Comment on That Funny Feeling

• TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s typically felt by survivors of serious trauma or severely mentally unwell people. I think it’s misunderstood by people who like to list their mental disorders on tumblr as a critique of the world around you.

  Capitalism causes a dull sense of derealization because the world around you isn’t natural and it isn’t real. It’s all a market. You’re just shoveled off the plane of true reality to be a more efficient consumer and worker in service of capitalism. That’s a depersonalization we all experience, but it’s more of a conscious realization than a mental disorder.

  Maybe this take is a little hot, but I think if people stopped using terms like this to make themselves feel “more real” or more interesting or more enlightened than others, then we could find some solidarity and fight against this fucked up system that is killing us earlier, killing the planet, and co-opting our entire reality for profit. That’s a serious problem that has corrupted our one shot at life. We are born into a system that churns us into perfect cogs for a machine that runs on us instead of for us. That is a hard pill to swallow. But instead of that realization being held over your title so as to make people see you differently, maybe that is the exact kick we all desperately need to ardently fight for a different system, a different world than the one we’ve been herded into.

  It’s real. And it’s fucked up. But it’s not an individualistic problem for probably 80% of the people that google it/think they feel it. It’s a product of this warped system of capitalism. Unite over it. Don’t pin it to your lapel.

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  • SevenOfWine@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry to reply to an older comment, but you are correct. Feeling alienated from (capitalist) society or the fake mediatised and commericalised reality we’re often fed is indeed different to derealization.

    I’ve experienced the latter, and it’s more like an out of body experience. Like you’re floating a few centimeters above your body, or like you’re watching yourself in a movie. Like you’re experiencing something that feels like very vivid deja vu or like you’re in a dream. Which can of course lead you to make very bad decisions.

    It’s a product of this warped system of capitalism. Unite over it. Don’t pin it to your lapel.

    I sometimes wonder if it isn’t sometimes a deliberate attempt to individualise societal problems. Pretend the syptoms are the problem, rather than adress the cause: a sick and profoundly unfair society that is in seemingly terminal decline. You’re sad about climate change? It’s your fault for not taking anti-depressants. You’re angry about industrial pollution? Did you put the yogurt pot in the right bin?

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