(November 28, 2021 at 8:20 pm)T.J. Wrote: What can we do as a people to improve the nature of mental health in the world?
"As a people" is the difficult part. What most people want would help a lot -- universal health insurance, a higher minimum wage, etc. There's lots of concrete, do-able steps that would ease the burden of millions.
The trouble is that what we want can't get done, because the people who have power (Biden, etc.) will never ever do what most people want. Voting won't help because they will never give us someone good to vote for. Neoliberalism doesn't mind mental illness at all, because they can make money from it.
But to some degree, thinking about "as a people" shifts the burden. Since "they" will never do anything other than what's profitable, each of us has to think about what he or she can do. This doesn't mean that each of us is to be held responsible for the crisis, only that, first and foremost, we have to make sure we are doing what we can.
A simple thing, possible immediately, is to vow never to say something with the intention of making someone else feel bad.
