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

Internet Incentives, McLuhan, Elite Overproduction, and Nihilism
Brian Chau
Nov 28, 2022
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Freddie deBoer is a writer and the author of The Cult of Smart.

Freddie deBoer
cool but rude

The Incoherence and Cruelty of Mental Illness as Meme — Freddie deBoer:

Freddie deBoer
The Incoherence and Cruelty of Mental Illness as Meme
Here’s what we’ve done with mental health in the popular American consciousness in the span of a few years. Created a pleasant series of lies about mental illness such that it is defined as a set of attractive and romantic quirks which do nothing to stop someone from participating in public life as a savvy and politically correct person…
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2 years ago · 464 likes · 201 comments · Freddie deBoer

Freddie deBoer’s first appearance on FTNW:

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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It
Listen now (3 hr) | Freddie Deboer is a writer on substack and a contributor to many publications. He offers a unique perspective, coming from the economic left while seeing through a range of strategic and policy failures. We discuss progressive organizations, doomerism, the politics of recognition, state capacity, patronage systems, civil rights law, housing, monarchy, m…
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2 years ago · 13 likes · 5 comments · Brian Chau

The Cult of Smart:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250224491/thecultofsmart

Timestamps:

0:00 Class Analysis
10:30 Mental Illness
43:00 Internet Incentives
1:28:00 McLuhan
1:41:00 Elite Competition

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