Society neutralizes the dissent by medicalizing them.

If someone sees silence as truer than speech or solitude as richer than community, that threatens the social machinery. Call it "depression," and suddenly the threat becomes "disorder" or "sickness." A silent person is not “useful.” A solitary person is not “networking.” A melancholic person is not “optimistic” about the system’s promises. Hence, society flips the script: it is not the world that is sick, but the person. They will never be curious about, “What is this silence telling?” “What lies beneath this solitude?” or “What insight does this melancholy reveal about the world?” Once this is framed as “you are just depressed,” then it is no longer a revelation about the world but only a “malfunction” inside someone’s brain. Anything that does not shine, smile, or flatter is cast into the shadow of “mental illness” and thus, reduced to a mere symptom instead of a philosophy. Society neutralizes the dissent by medicalizing them.