If you want to have a feeling of what Mahatma Gandhi is not famous.Poverty is the worst type of violence“A quotation means for the United States today, there are two stories from last week that you must read. One of Jonathan CohenHuffington Post Healthcare Correspondent. The other from Margaret LeonThe insightful television critic in Vulture. Combated, these two pieces offer a decent drawing of how the American economy and its culture work together to make the poor feel as if they were unabated.
Let’s start with the Cohn piece, to which you meet New study From the United States Center for Control and Prevention. The study depends on the results of a five -year personal survey. Wiping the national health interview As Cohen writes, “He explains, in live phrases, something that public health experts have known for a period of time.” That is, the closer you are poor, the greater your chances of suffering from what the public health field calls “serious psychological distress” – a matter of insults of common forms of mental illness.
The difference is not small. Nearly 9 percent of people with poverty income (about $ 20,000 for a family of three people) said they had suffered from “serious psychological distress.” This means that between 2009 and 2013, the years in which the survey took place was approximately 10 of these people – and there is there More than 40 million Among them – they felt levels of anxiety and depression. On the contrary, more than 1 percent of those whose income exceeded the poverty line exceeded four times or more that they feel similar mental pain.
If you think depression and anxiety are just fictional words for Blues-and nothing can not repair an unable to repair in BEP-Talk and Yank in OL ‘Bootstraps- You may not find this very annoying. But before you refuse that this is a little more than talking to the hearts of the usual bleeding, you should take into account two things. The first: Your view of mental health is not only old, but is the last resort for people in a state of denial on their own needs. Two: There is a Growth body It is a research that shows that the damage of poverty is equally as cognitive as it is psychologically.
Cohen also notes the results of the study of the Center for Disease Control, despite Stark, do not tell us much about the cause and influence. Do these people suffer from mental illness because they are poor? Or is it poor because they suffer from mental illness? “[M]Quinn writes, “Sincerity of the process,” the truth of the process He works In both of them Trends“I remember all these studies of the worst years of the great recession, which can be the unemployment for a long time can be More destructive to your emotional health From the death of the husband. These operations can work together to create what Cohen calls a “dreadful evil cycle”.
This is the inner and calm life of misery and despair America’s version of capitalism It gives a lot. However, the American pop culture believes that it is still not bad enough. This is the place Lyon pieceWhich examines the “bag”, which is a new, hateful reality display of CBS, interfering. Because what the “bag” does is to tell the founding people enough not only to be poor but also to see CBS that this mental anguish is, in the end, which they brought to themselves.
Here is the hypothesis of the offer, as Lyon explained. A family that deals with what CBS calls “financial setbacks” is granted a bag full of $ 101,000. Then the family of “other financial setbacks” is offered-and they are told that they must decide the amount of money that must be shared-if any. Without the knowledge of any of the family, this strange preparation is presented to both. Lyon writes that in the early episodes that were sent to critics, families find their responsibility to be so great to make one woman vomit and “several” to say that she is “the most difficult decision they made ever.”
How do they make such a decision? By engaging in the American traditions that are destroyed in the separation of the poor into two categories, two exchanged categories: those who He deserves Be poor, and those who do not do it. “Families visit each other and look at each other’s bills,” Leon writes. Perhaps they can pay the costs of their children’s surgery, if they only turn from Cheerios to Frosted Flakes! Basically, CBS decided Ronald Reagan about “Welfare Queens” and “Bache Young” using the luxury to buy Ferrais It may not be technically true But it is real enough for reality TV.
Lyon is called “altruism porn”, but I even even give this gives CBS – and the culture that allows the network claims to believe that the “bag” can be “Meather Extreme: Home Edition” – great credit. Porn of altruism will include an episode after an episode of charitable, gentle giving. What is happening here is more abstract than humanity, and requires more participation from its victims. It is not porn. It is “hunger games”. In its own way, no less violent.