Rivka Wolf
1 min readMay 8, 2023

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I appreciate your reflection and rearticulation of your point. However, I would still point out that "I wish I took better care of myself" is a criticism we are pressured into by the construction of health as an individual responsibility, rather than a societal concern. We are constantly told that our emotional and psychological limitations are not real, that we can and should simply push through them, rather than understand the trauma or the conditions of our lives that generate them. People seek out coaches to tell them what to do, and coerce or force them to do it, in ignorance of their own limitations. People rarely seek out trauma informed care to understand why they mistreat themselves, or what external conditions we are responding to when we self-harm.

True, most people self-harm. Most people have addictions. Yet we are living in end times, we are constantly exposed to a life-altering epidemic, most of us live under multiple forms of oppression at once. We can't speak out against it, or else we will be attacked by the state, lose our jobs, lose our social connections.

Focusing the locus of attention on humans acting against their 'objective' best interests and then stating this is about "human nature," rather than social circumstances, is a big leap.

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Rivka Wolf
Rivka Wolf

Written by Rivka Wolf

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