Name: Our unhealthy obsession with choice
Uploaded: 2014-07-09T14:51:35Z
Duration: 14 min 48 s
Description: We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

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We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

Renata Salecl: Our unhealthy obsession with choice

Our unhealthy obsession with choice

The ideology of endless choice in post-industrial capitalism fosters anxiety, guilt, and a sense of inadequacy in individuals.

Choice, while seemingly abundant, can lead to social paralysis and distract from the pressing need for collective social change.

Embracing the possibility of social choices, beyond the individual, can lead to meaningful changes in society and our environment.