Ronald Purser

McMindfulness

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A lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools, and the US military.
Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have called it a revolution.
The evangelical promotion of mindfulness as a panacea for all that ails us has begun to give way to a backlash, with questions arising whether its claims for achieving happiness, wellbeing and career success have been over-sold. Expanding on his influential essay “Beyond McMindfulness”, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called “mindfulness revolution”, arguing its proponents have reduced mindfulness to a self-help technique that fits snugly into a consumerist culture complicit with Western materialistic values.
In a lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has…
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    Rather, the mindful imperative to “accept things as they are” while practicing “nonjudgmental, present moment awareness” acts as a social anesthesia, preserving the status quo.
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    “ignoring the massively entrenched power of capitalist institutions in favor of a mystical notion of all wisdom being inside oneself.”
  • arihas quotedlast year
    “ignoring the massively entrenched power of capitalist institutions in favor of a mystical notion of all wisdom being inside oneself.”

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