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A katy perry could easily have ended up a taylor swift an avril lavigne a christina aguilera. It seems fair to say its all surface no feeling people aspire more to the spoils of success and seem less concerned with the specifics of how they get there. Be it the music industry hollywood even the more independant. We live in an age where art has largely become formulaic: a group of people largely concerned with making money believe they know what the masses want for their entertainment and given the numbers who watch what we may call modern art they appear to be right. The overiding question is must art have a soul? Can machines make art? can children, can animals?. Do we have to have a solitary mind a work, can people really combine to create a unique vision, as in most modern films, and to a lesser extent music. What does one human being have to invest in a work for it to be worthy of the name, and does the modern artist even aspire to such lofty goals. What is art? Is it purely personal, or can it be measured. a 5x5 concrete backyard is not a forest for children to explore in and while it may seem like stating the obvious more must be done to amend these rather that the band aid drugging of the general population to fit into the capitalist model.
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A weeks holiday in benidorm is not a holiday home in the south of france. Now technological evolution can only help and Im not suggesting we all condemn ourselves to an amish like existance but there must be balance and people deprived in certain inner cities just dont appear to be able to get the balance which seemingly money can buy. We are all human and we need certain things which arent always available in modern life. Is mental illness just your body screaming 'this is wrong'. So was her mental illness a warning sign and the bodies way of telling her to change her life. The statistics show that mental illness is closely corrolated to socio-economic status and while correlation may not be causation they seems a red light there. The lack of concrete biological findings bring doubt to its ouright classification as a disease.Ī close friend of mine grew up in a very poor part of northern england and always remained convinced that it was only her crippling depression sonce childhood that saved her from a life of teen pregnancies, xfactor and microwave meals, now working in the psychiatist her sucess story is few and far between with social mobility at an all time low. Mental health has always appeared to best be described as a spectrum, the positive to negative, and we all must exist somewhere on the scale. The evolutionist in me cant help but think that the various forms of depression and mental lillness would have long since disappeared if it wasn't adaptive.
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As certain as anything can be in the field of psychology, an aspiring science still in its infancy, there is more and more cases of mental illness with it expected to be the leading cause of disability in 2020, if modern trends continue. Whether down to more awareness, more diagnosis, or modern life: mental illness appears to be on the rise.