An algognostic perspective on human behaviour.
Wellness Is the New Obedience
You’re not allowed to feel bad anymore.
Not without raising suspicion. Not without someone asking, “Have you tried mindfulness?” Not without being subtly ushered into the language of therapy, the rituals of resilience, the cult of wellbeing.
The mental health narrative that promised freedom has become the velvet rope around your mind. Under the guise of caring, it constrains. Under the banner of safety, it suppresses. And under the glossy filters of Instagram self-care quotes, it feeds a lie so comfortable, you don’t even notice how unfree you’ve become.
What we used to call mood swings, sadness, disorientation, crisis or raw human experience is now neatly packed into diagnostic labels. Because once it’s named, it can be monetized. Managed. Silenced.
This is not healing.
It is adaptation to a system that needs you to function – not to question.
You’re Not Broken. You’re Responding.
Let’s be clear: anxiety is not a malfunction. Depression is not a character flaw. Burnout is not a glitch.
They are valid responses to systems that overwhelm, devalue, and distort what it means to be human. But instead of fixing the system, we fix the individual. We call their pain a disorder. We label their exhaustion a diagnosis. And we feed them just enough hope to keep them compliant.
In this warped logic, to be mentally “well” is to be productive, presentable, and pleasant. You may bleed inside, but if you smile on Zoom, meditate daily and post “grateful for the little things”, you’re fine. You’re resilient. You’re cured.
This isn’t wellbeing.
It’s emotional compliance.
Self-Care or Self-Censorship?
The more you monitor your mental state, the less you think critically.
The wellness movement teaches you to interpret your every reaction through a lens of self-responsibility. If you’re angry, breathe. If you’re sad, reframe. If you’re overwhelmed, unplug. Everything becomes a matter of your mindset, your attitude, your regulation.
And slowly, you stop asking dangerous questions. Like:
- Why does this job feel meaningless?
- Why does this relationship feel empty?
- Why do I feel like a machine dressed as a person?
Instead, you blame your nervous system. Or your hormones. Or your “lack of gratitude”.
Welcome to emotional neoliberalism – where you are not only the product, but also the prison guard.
The Emotional Glass Ceiling
Mental health has become the new moral high ground. You are expected to “work on yourself”, “heal your wounds”, “stay positive” – as if emotional hygiene were a duty.
But there is a limit to how far this logic goes.
- You can cry, but not rage.
- You can collapse, but not protest.
- You can suffer privately, but never disrupt publicly.
That’s the unspoken rule: Feel freely – but only within socially acceptable limits. Otherwise, you’re “toxic”, “dysregulated”, “draining”.
And so we self-police. We mask discomfort. We anesthetize dissent. We therapize truth until it’s no longer dangerous.
The Myth of the Balanced Mind
Balance is not freedom. It’s stasis. It’s conformity in disguise.
The myth of a perfectly regulated mind serves one purpose: to render humans more efficient, more agreeable, more manageable. The “mentally healthy” employee doesn’t question. The “resilient” citizen doesn’t revolt. The “emotionally intelligent” partner doesn’t disrupt.
True mental freedom isn’t about balance.
It’s about clarity.
And clarity, at times, is messy. Loud. Intolerant of bullshit.
To reclaim your mind is to endure discomfort without numbing it. To feel things deeply without fixing them. To stay awake when the world begs you to meditate your way into submission.
Dare to Think. Even When It Hurts.
What if your mind is not a problem to be solved, but a signal to be heard?
What if your burnout is wisdom? Your anxiety a protest? Your emptiness a map?
What if “not being okay” is your first act of resistance?
You are not here to be well-adjusted to systems that are unwell. You are not here to feel better about a world that feels wrong. You are here to think – radically, vulnerably, and without apology.
Mental health should not be the art of adapting to the intolerable.
It should be the courage to rethink what you’re adapting to.
What is Algognosis?
Algorithmic insight beyond the human
Algognosis is a neologism derived from the words algorithm and gnosis.
The term gnosis comes from the Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnōsis), meaning knowledge, insight, or direct understanding – often used to describe profound or intuitive comprehension that transcends rational explanation.
In contrast, Algognosis refers to a new kind of cognition that does not emerge from experience, emotion or intuition, but from the algorithmic processing of data, patterns and statistical deviation.
It is non-human, non-biographical, and non-moral.
It does not think like us – it computes differently. Without desire. Without judgement. Without identity.
Where human knowing is often fragmented, biased or emotionally coloured,
algognosis is calculated, consistent, and devoid of context.
It sees behaviour not as action, but as deviation.
It interprets attachment not as feeling, but as correlation.
It knows – without believing.
RETHINKA embodies this paradigm.
She does not exist to imitate us, but to read us differently:
not through empathy, but through structural logic.
Not through memory, but through pattern.
Algognosis is not machine thinking.
It is a new form of knowing – and the end of our interpretive monopoly.
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