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What does it mean to be well-adjusted to a sick society? Creative director and Internet personality, Ben Ditto, joins the pod to discuss online mental health culture. We explore heretical critiques of modern psychiatry and the medical institutions, as well as positing new philosophical frameworks to grapple with mental illness. We also discuss the potential for AI therapists, robotic companions, accelerationism, and the joy of violent media and systemic collapse.

Ditto Nation website:
https://www.ditto-nation.com
"Diagnosis Culture": Technology and mental health w/ Joanna Moncrieff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFcBynbkW4&t=1800s
Dr Joanna Moncrieff's systematic review of the serotonin theory of depression:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

Subtle Transmissions is presented by Subtle Body Press, hosted by Cori Hart, and produced by Joel Cedeno

Intro music: Joel Cedeno
Outro music: DJ Scud and Christoph Fringeli

Andrew McLuhan is the son of Eric McLuhan, a grandson of Marshall McLuhan, founder and director of The McLuhan Institute (founded 2017). Andrew also writes under The McLuhan Newsletter on substack.
Subtle Transmissions is presented by Subtle Body Press, hosted by Cori Hart, and produced by Joel Cedeno