Life-Hacks Of The Poor And Aimless | Laurie Penny | Baffler | 8th July 2016

“The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop to a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity and radical self-love — the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we can achieve a meaningful existence by maintaining a positive outlook. The more the floodwaters rise, the more the public conversation is turning toward individual fulfillment as if in a desperate attempt to make us feel like we still have some control over our lives”