Politicians want to improve our worsening mental health with big psychiatric initiatives. The problem with this model, says historian of neuroscience Danielle Carr, is that it ignores the social and structural forces causing widespread mental suffering.
Let me introduce you to the concept of the polycrisis.
The movies for which Guy Ritchie remains best known, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, both have this bit in which all the chickens to whom he’s spent the past hour patiently getting us acquainted all come home to roost at the same time in the same place, and it’s marvelous and hilarious.
It’s not so great in the moment, is it?