9 September

Of course there's nothing wrong with checking if people are OK, it's lovely. But it's an example of how collective problems become individual problems, in societies of adolescents. There are many discoverable reasons why people are not OK, but this shifts attention instead to how individuals are coping. Workplaces are almost universally appallingly managed. Hands up if shit managers at your work respond to criticism by suggesting you access employee counselling programs? Relationships carry the weight of communities that no longer act as communities. Etc. Those are the things we really need to talk about.