PATTERN RECOGNITION

PATTERN RECOGNITION

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THE PROBLEM THAT (STILL) HAS NO NAME

THE PROBLEM THAT (STILL) HAS NO NAME

Wait, did Betty Friedan predict all this?

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Beth Bentley
May 09, 2024
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Perhaps one of the most famous essays ever written - The Problem That Has No Name, published by Betty Friedan in 1963 - was an attempt to put words to something that’s still very hard to explain. A creeping societal malaise that I think is still is alive and well in today’s consumer culture, albeit morphed into a different shape:

The problem of feeling a…

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