{"id":1923,"date":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2010\/01\/12\/the-psychological-costs-of-capitalism-an-exploration-into-how-we-are-being-emotionally-snookered-by-the-demands-of-21st-century-living\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-psychological-costs-of-capitalism-an-exploration-into-how-we-are-being-emotionally-snookered-by-the-demands-of-21st-century-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2010\/01\/12\/the-psychological-costs-of-capitalism-an-exploration-into-how-we-are-being-emotionally-snookered-by-the-demands-of-21st-century-living\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychological Costs of Capitalism: an Exploration into How We Are Being Emotionally Snookered by the Demands of 21st Century Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our society we are getting richer and richer and simultaneously less and less happy. Within my stage three project I want to explore how in modern life capitalism and the consumer culture has corrupted our values and as a result people are increasingly driven by an obsessive desire to define themselves by their earnings, possessions, appearance and celebrity. I want to show how this is responsible for the ever rising rates of depression and anxiety in England and America\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>Heidegger\u2019s analysis of boredom suggests that our lives lack personal meaning, and where there is a lack of personal meaning, capitalism creates all sorts of diversions and substitutes, mostly in the form of consumption. Through the work of Heidegger, I will reveal how our fundamental needs as beings are not being met. This endless pursuit of unfulfillable desires has created a profoundly impoverished emotional culture, subsequently we are no longer living authentic lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Cheney, 2010, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,22,123],"tags":[64,159,34],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-564","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-capitalism","tag-consumerism","tag-heidegger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}