When, oh when will people stop confusing psychological problems with a political stance?
Zygmunt Bauman condemns the insistent attempts to look for non-existent local solutions to globally begotten problems.
It is as much a mistaken strategy as looking for political remedies to private ills.
You’ll ask why it should bother me that some unknown person indulges in public spectacles of self-hatred. It bothers me because these exhibitions of diseased psyches leave no space for actual political discussions. Since I started referencing Bauman, he calls this sad process a colonization of the public arena by the unchecked spillage of the purely private. As a result, we have no public sphere any longer. There is just a never-ending stream of private woes, complaints, and narratives.
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