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The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

Book by Billy Poon · 4 quotes · Social Philosophy, Sociology, Society

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The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile Quotes

“In our capitalist society, people are not worth helping. There is no apparent economic value in helping others but simply benefit financially from their well-being.”

“In a selficated society, we assume the worst about an individual’s reason for existence, not about the best of what that person does.”

“In a selficated society, you feel free only when you are never free. You are being negotiated constantly to become your own master and slave at the same time, a project-maker and meaning-maker of one’s individuality with the exclusion of others except one’s own activities. It becomes a society habitually wanting itself for itself and by its own volition to stoop within the confines of self-interest.”