Sign in to see fewer ads

Is modern society making us depressed?

Logo

April 16, 2018 07:00

00:00 / 91:09

1 plays

“What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief — for our own lives not being
as they should?” asks Johann Hari. “What if it is a form of grief for the
connections we have lost yet still need?” In his new book, Lost Connections,
Hari advances an argument both radical and obvious: Depression and anxiety are
more than just chemical imbalances in the brain. They are the result of our
social environments, our relationships, our political contexts — our lives, in
short. Hari, who has struggled with depression since his youth, went on a
journey to try to understand the social causes of mental illness, the ones we
prefer not to talk about because changing them is harder than handing out a
pill. What he returned with is a book that claims to be about depression but
is actually about the ways we’ve screwed up modern society and created a world
that leaves far too many of us alienated, anxious, despairing, and lost.   The
philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti famously said, “It is no measure of health to
be well-adjusted to a sick society.” So that, then, is the question Hari and I
consider in this conversation: How sick, really, is our society?  Books:
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward
Herman and Noam Chomsky This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by
Naomi Klein A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise
in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild
Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit Read more
{"autoscroll": false}
07:39 09:11
---
v2014-10-26T11:25:33+00:00vox-pod
5470

We are sorry, audio play could not be started. Please try again in a few minutes

Send us the error detail
  • vox-pod
  • 1414320000
  • https://chunkserver-do.radiocut.site
  • podcastepisode
  • /radiostation/vox-pod/has_recordings_at/1414320000
  • 0
  • US/Eastern
  • -240
  • /pcastepisode/playing/111316/

We're sorry. We do not have this radio recordings for the time requested. You can click on 'Change' to go to another day or time. This radio is recorded Lun-Dom 0-23:59


--:-- → --:-- (0 s)
The cut starts from the position where you clicked Cut, marked with the icon [ and ends at the current position (@) when you "Save" or you may also clic on "Mark end of cut" and continue listening to the radio while filling up the form fields to then "Save".
Please enter a descriptive title for the audio cut
Please enter a more detailed description for the audio cut
Separate tags with commas (,)
Uploaded image size must not exceed 50kb
To create hidden or private cuts you must have a premium account
Get a premium account now
The cut should be at least 5 seconds long