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Re:Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt... by ahussain on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:29PM (#13186861)
I agree about the lack of community. There is also something about "artificiality" - it troubles me when walking around a city to know that all this was constructed by other people; and getting to grips with the 'documentation' for all this can be daunting.

Do you know of any other authors/philosophers who explore this idea more fully?

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Re:Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt... by sacha_inchi on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:12PM (#13188443)
Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" is the most recent book I've read that touches on the overwhelming nature of modern life. In a nutshell, his idea of a solution to this problem is to not think about it. People who don't dig into the symbolic/artificial nature of society tend to function better.
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Re:Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt... by yarou on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:44PM (#13189812)
Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault among others. [0][1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space)

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Re:Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt... by wu-ikkyu on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:13PM (#13188452)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
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