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[โ€“] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Our words makes us think under the capitalist mindset.

For deem, we like to use problem solving to mitigate capitalisms disruptions. By doing this, we superficially look at the current conditions and answers similarily superficially. For deem, we say that plastic bottles pollutes our oceans and recirculation are the solution. That cars polluting are the problem and electric cars are the solution.

These are technically solutions, but they dont take an wholistic approach. They dont see the interplay of different actions. They dont necessarily try to completely answer an undesired condition. This is the unwellness of problem solving.

What we instead should do, is to start from the wholistic. View our planet as a body. To see ourselves as doctors rather than engineers. To say that we do unwellness lokening, rather than problem solving.

Because by doing this, we fundamentally change the framing. We will have a much easier time defining conditions wholistically, and thus makes it easier to find effective responses to them.

Plastics bottles are certainly an unwellness, but it is part of something bigger... The unwellness of plastic pollution where the lokening is stopping plastic production. An unwellness is cars, the lokening is stopping car production. An unwellness is advertisements, the lokening is people initiated sightsteering.

The unwellness lokening approach is in itself a way to move away from captialist realism and towards samlife.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

This is very idealist, rather than materialist. Proper analysis of problems presented by capitalism must be looked at systemically, yes, but framing it based on vibes and LARPing as "system doctors" doesn't actually solve anything. We must take a consistent, scientific approach, a la Marxism.