No Zoloft for this: KAOS malaise and public health

As the public sphere has become unrecognizably dystopian, the toll on human health includes a range of symptoms it may take more than pharmacology to cure.
The symptoms produced by witnessing the previously unthinkable daily to-do list of New World Order cartoon villains, sinister non-state actors, political rogues, and geopolitical bullies is beginning to read like the hair-raising side-effects disclaimer on a prescription drug commercial, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
We’re all aware of the small, daily health effects of the drastic changes to our political landscape wrought by the collision of democracy and the reality-distorting innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Revulsion or outrage when observing certain world leaders in their depleted habitat...

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