Shayari Bazar

Today psychopathy reveals itself ever more clearly as a social epidemic and, more precisely, a socio-communicational one. If you want to survive you have to be competitive and if you want to be competitive you must be connected, receive and process continuously an immense and growing mass of data. This provokes a constant attentive stress, a reduction of the time available for affectivity.These two tendencies, inseparably linked, provoke an effect of devastation on the individual psyche: depression, panic, anxiety, the sense of solitude and existential misery. But these individual symptoms cannot be indefinitely isolated, as psychopathology has done up until now and as economic power wishes to do. It is not possible to say: “You are exhausted, go and take a vacation at Club Med, take a pill, make a cure, get the hell away from it all, recover in the psychiatric hospital, kill yourself.” It is no longer possible,for the simple reason that it is no longer a matter of a small minority ofcrazies or a marginal amount of depressives. It concerns a growing massof existential misery that is tending always more to explode in the centerof the social system. Besides, it is necessary to consider a decisive fact:at the time when capital needed to suck in physical energy from its exploitedand from its slaves, psychopathology could be relatively marginalized.Your psychic suffering didn’t matter much to capital when you onlyhad to insert screws and handle a lathe. You could be as sad as a solitaryfly in a bottle, but your productivity was hardly affected because yourmuscles could still function. Todaycapital needs mental energies, psychicenergies. And these are exactly the capacities that are fucking up.It’s because of this that psychopathology is exploding in the center of the social scene. The economic crisis depends for the most part on acirculation of sadness, depression, panic and demotivation. The crisis ofthe new economy was provoked in a large part by a crisis of motivations,by a fall the artificial euphoria of the 1990s. This has led to effects of disinvestment and in part even to a reduction of consumption. In general,unhappiness functions as a stimulus to consume: buying is a suspensionof anxiety, an antidote to loneliness, but only up to a certain point. Beyondthis certain point, suffering becomes a demotivating factor for purchasing.There is therefore an elaboration of conflicting strategies.The masters of the world certainly do not want humanity to be able to be happy, because a happy humanity would not let itself be caught up in productivity, in the discipline over work or in hypermarkets. However, they try out useful techniques to make unhappiness moderate and tolerable,for postponing or preventing a suicidal explosion, for inducing consumption.