I don’t know, I had almost the opposite reaction. I had been trying to get myself to read for forever, and when I got this one I crushed it in two days. Thought it was great. I do think the kids are getting more on board with the idea that Capitalism causes the mental health crisis and that being depressed isn’t just magic brain chemicals being unbalanced for no reason. I view Graeber’s imminently readable Utopia of Rules to be a concerted attempt at greatly elaborating the corporate bureaucratic complex that defines Late Capitalism. Fisher does name drop Zizek a ton, though really it ends up being mostly the good parts of Zizek explained better than by Zizek: the book, anyway. Because it’s short, it’s exactly the kind of thing I try to get people to read to radicalize them.
I do think the kids are getting more on board with the idea that Capitalism causes the mental health crisis and that being depressed isn’t just magic brain chemicals being unbalanced for no reason.
