Ills of Modern Society

[Anonymous No.16602127]

Any recommendations for books about anything related to the detrimental effects of modern society on human wellbeing? i.e. rising mental illness, poor diets, lack of social connections/community, alienation from nature, internet/phone addiction, etc.

>inb4 ISAIF

[Anonymous No.16602181]

my dairy desu

[Anonymous No.16602188]

society of the spectacle, simulacra and simulation, history of sexuality volume 1 if you want things about media, 12 rules for life and the above anons diary for easy reading

[Anonymous No.16602191]

>>16602127
>poor diets
There's a book detailing the construction of the food pyramid, I don't recall the name right now. Basically, the final word was given by politicians, which of course ended being in detriment of the whole society.
>internet/phone addiction
I would recommend to you "Amusing Ourselves to Death", it talks mostly about books being replaced with television but a lot of it applies too to cellphones and the internet, also has a very good bit about a small part of the history of reading in the USA. It mostly focus on what internet/phone addiction is doing to society in general, and not to the individual, I know you asked for human well being and society falls into that category, but it's better to make this clear before you read it.
Although I never read a "book" on the subject, I've read a lot of scientific articles about "Parasocial Relationships", and I'm sure there must be a book about it, it falls into that category of internet/phone addiction and its consequences.

As for the rest, I don't know.

[Anonymous No.16602201]

Kobo Abe is the best author when it comes to writing about urban alienation.

[Anonymous No.16602434]

>>16602191
I'm going to look into parasocial relationships more, seems interesting

>>16602201
Thanks anon, which of his books do you think is the best?

[Anonymous No.16602438]

text and reading in general

[The Doubter No.16602452]

>>16602127
But what if these things are an illusion

[Anonymous No.16602496]

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins by Konrad Lorenz

[Anonymous No.16603211]

>>16602127

[Anonymous No.16603514]

>>16602127
For pic related From our House to Bauhaus. Lays out in simple terms the hypocrisy and hack philosophy of modern architecture.

[Anonymous No.16603925]

based HongKonger

[Anonymous No.16603950]

>>16602127
Postman, Scruton, Dalrymple
and of course Evola and Guenon

[Anonymous No.16603967]

>>16602127

anything by Bret Easton Ellis
it's that simple

[Anonymous No.16603984]

>>16602127
It's let down somewhat by the over-reliance on film references, but I haven't read a better analysis of the impotence of our current system to address any real problems.

>"The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRls). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one."

[Anonymous No.16603985]

>>16602127

[Anonymous No.16603999]

>>16603984
i thought this was a meme... seems kinda based doe

[Anonymous No.16604031]

The Technological Society by Ellul
Industrial Society and its Future/Technological Slavery by Kaczynski
The Waste Makers by Vance Package
The Consumer Society by Baudrillard
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by McLuhan
On Television by Bourdieu Pierre