'It’s not enough to just feel better—we need our devices to affirm that we are doing the work. This raises the question: Are we genuinely interested in feeling healthier and happier?'
Our focus is shifting away from the actual self—our bodies, minds, and spirits—and toward data about the self. With iEverythings around us at all times, we expect our steps to be enumerated, our REM cycles to be recorded, and our breathing patterns to be measured. It’s not enough to just feel better—we need our devices to affirm that we are doing the work.
In my estimation, I own fifteen notebooks / life planners, a couple dozen candles, three yoga mats, a few pieces of crystal, and subscriptions to meditation and self-affirmation apps, as well as I buy myself a small bouquet of flowers monthly, and I consume self-help books the way some folks eat Pringles. My apartment is basically one introduction-to-crochet kit and several dream catchers away from being the equivalent of a fully stocked Etsy shop.
Enter Audre Lorde. A self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” she dedicated her life and creative work to fighting injustices ranging from racism and sexism to homophobia and capitalism. At the root of this work was an ideology that confronting these societal issues is not for the benefit of the individual, but for the collective.
So let’s get radical again. More than that, how about someone or someones in mental healthcare and politics get radical with us and help us save ourselves by moving away from capitalism and quick fixes, only focusing on self-soothing and not enough on the community, and moving toward a society that cares for and about us? A society that shows us they care by making mental healthcare as accessible as charging stations for our phones.
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