The belief that self improvement happens in a vacuum or begins and ends with oneself. As the opposite of collective care, selfish care symbolizes the hyper fixation of today's western society on individual efforts in regards to self improving and self care. Those individual efforts are often tied to capitalism and the self care industry, as well as colonialism.
iLiana Fokianaki explains in 'The Bureau of Care: Introductory Notes on the Care-less and Care-full':
"While depriving citizens of care, NAS narcissistic authoritarian statism nonetheless capitalizes on the individualist notion of care, widely promoted as “self-care” through an industry with billions in revenues. By ... taking care of oneself, contemporary subjectivities ... are tasked with the care of their overworked bodies, but are less and less interested in the well-being of bodies that are outside of the immediate realm of their family, class, workplace, city, country, and continent. They are further burdened with individual responsibility for their own care, since care has lost its character as a human right and has become a paid service. ".
Selfish care is the accumulation of influences from NAS on individual's belief systems about the notions of care. It represents the indoctrination of the capitalistic evolution of the care system, expressed through the associations with self care that tie it to a profit-driven industry.
iLiana Fokianaki explains in 'The Bureau of Care: Introductory Notes on the Care-less and Care-full':
"While depriving citizens of care, NAS narcissistic authoritarian statism nonetheless capitalizes on the individualist notion of care, widely promoted as “self-care” through an industry with billions in revenues. By ... taking care of oneself, contemporary subjectivities ... are tasked with the care of their overworked bodies, but are less and less interested in the well-being of bodies that are outside of the immediate realm of their family, class, workplace, city, country, and continent. They are further burdened with individual responsibility for their own care, since care has lost its character as a human right and has become a paid service. ".
Selfish care is the accumulation of influences from NAS on individual's belief systems about the notions of care. It represents the indoctrination of the capitalistic evolution of the care system, expressed through the associations with self care that tie it to a profit-driven industry.
"I can't come tonight, I need to do some face-masks and watch Netflix."
" Oh, so you're doing selfish-care tonight henny"
"I'm gonna treat myself. F*ck it, selfish-care"
"You do you, boo"
" Oh, so you're doing selfish-care tonight henny"
"I'm gonna treat myself. F*ck it, selfish-care"
"You do you, boo"
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by professional_circle July 19, 2023
Get the i don't care mug.Going out of your way to do what's best for yourself, especially at the cost of those closest to you, while insisting its for their good and that you have their best interests at heart.
"I care about you, that's why I spent our last 60 bucks on food out for me when you needed gas."
"I'm so caring. Last night I got myself a mani pedi with my boyfriends money without asking."
"It's really caring of you when you insist we eat what you want even though I am allergic to it."
"I'm so caring. Last night I got myself a mani pedi with my boyfriends money without asking."
"It's really caring of you when you insist we eat what you want even though I am allergic to it."
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Get the Sowvital Self-care mug.Dr. Jordan "JeepJorp" Peterson "I aM VERY cArEfUl WiTh My WoRdS!"
Hym "I mean... You unwittingly described yourself as a psychopath... After your test called ME a psychopath..."
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Hym "You aren't successful though... You were fired for being too DISAGREEABLE and are losing your license for monetizing your clients, writing poetry about their molested ginies and bootyholes (even going as far as to call on of them an idiot), and weaponizing schizophrenia against a detractor..."
Dr. Jordan Peterson "That's your fault!"
Hym " How... Is that my fault? You were mistaken as an advocate for disaffected young men... Because you were mistaken for me... You hate those!"
Dr. Jordan Peterson "I helping them! I'm giving suffering people hope!"
Hym "Nooo... No more than any other self-help celebrity... I kind of said that ANYONE could do what you do... Like... Even a baby-dick schizo psychopathic Satanists... And now you're colluding with the government and the media to try and hold onto your ill-gotten gains by gathering as much unearned political power as you can possibly amass..."
Dr. Jordan Peterson "My sycophants say I'm not a fucking nutjob!"
Hym "They use you instrumentally as a means to push religious dogma and you allow it because you have no morals... Becuase you're a psychopath..."
Hym "I mean... You unwittingly described yourself as a psychopath... After your test called ME a psychopath..."
Dr. Jordan Peterson "Psychopaths aren't successful! I had 3 sources of income!"
Hym "You aren't successful though... You were fired for being too DISAGREEABLE and are losing your license for monetizing your clients, writing poetry about their molested ginies and bootyholes (even going as far as to call on of them an idiot), and weaponizing schizophrenia against a detractor..."
Dr. Jordan Peterson "That's your fault!"
Hym " How... Is that my fault? You were mistaken as an advocate for disaffected young men... Because you were mistaken for me... You hate those!"
Dr. Jordan Peterson "I helping them! I'm giving suffering people hope!"
Hym "Nooo... No more than any other self-help celebrity... I kind of said that ANYONE could do what you do... Like... Even a baby-dick schizo psychopathic Satanists... And now you're colluding with the government and the media to try and hold onto your ill-gotten gains by gathering as much unearned political power as you can possibly amass..."
Dr. Jordan Peterson "My sycophants say I'm not a fucking nutjob!"
Hym "They use you instrumentally as a means to push religious dogma and you allow it because you have no morals... Becuase you're a psychopath..."
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