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This is probably a bit, but this kind of thing is what I mean when I say people pathologize everything now.
(hexbear.net)
A less wild example I can think of is that someone that is antisocial and had their nose in books used to just be called an introvert or a nerd, but now such a person would probably accused of using escapism to avoid the real world. A harmless personality trait is now considered a concerning problem that an individual should be shamed for.
Not everything outside of reproducing and generating capital is cope.
If you're fixated on retvrning, presumably you want to go back to small communities. You know, the kind as far back as we have archeological evidence for? The kind where children played with toys, people played music, and people shared their ideas with each other? The kind that far predates hustle culture by thousands of years I mean.
Ragebait or whatever; the individual as they describe it is a sickness of the mind brought out by atomization