A trick I learned a few years ago that has made writing like this and the entire web much more useful to me is this: Instead of asking myself "is this piece overall correct?", I ask myself "what can I take away from this piece that is useful to me?" Instead of striving to come to some sort of overall conclusion about a written work, I just treat it as a potential source of nuggets that I can choose to keep and use.

Do I agree with the overall premise that capitalism is an unbridled source of trauma and that a pre-capitalistic world was better? No, that's obviously silly leftist absolutism. Yes, being forced to work in a coal mine is traumatic. But watching your kid die of starvation because you don't have fertilizer is too. So what? No one cares what conclusion I come to about the author's worldview.

What I think this article does a good job of is pointing out that our modern physical and cultural environment, which is largely a product of capitalism, is structured in a way that creates new traumas that we aren't well-equipped to deal with.

I think of widespread psychological drug use as a social warning light, flashing to tell us that we aren't living right in some way. That doesn't mean we should throw out the entire capitalist baby with the bathwater. But if you don't think something is seriously off about the world today, maybe this article that help open your eyes to that.