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Why do you think so many people are depressed today?

Some depression is genetic and has nothing to do with political parties, religious sects, pandemics, or anything else that people want to endlessly opine about, either in bluelight or anywhere else. The bullshitters opining about this god that god this politician that politician this evangelical that evangelical are self promoting, and couldn't give half a shit about depression.

Ive personally met with congressmen on both sides, some who've held sub-cabinet positions, and I can tell you they aren't any different from each other, at the end of the day they're just politicians.
 
The Axe said:
Ive personally met with congressmen on both sides, some who've held sub-cabinet positions, and I can tell you they aren't any different from each other, at the end of the day they're just politicians.
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Yes. One con man, be he a politician or lying preacher, are all cut from the same cloth.

The odd politician is worthy of us though. Not the lying preachers.

Regards
DL
 
Depression is hunger of the soul. Depression is the physical manifestation of a spiritual state of famine. Depression is a sign that change needs to come; action needs to be taken. We live our lives to sustain the body and do very little to sustain ourselves. Our body is the vehicle by which our soul is able to experience Life, our body is not us.
 
Entitlement

many people in my generation (zoomers) feel that they deserve any number of things. I see it a lot with academics since I’m around a lot of university students rn but it’s elsewhere too. It’s always “the professor gave me a bad grade” and rarely if ever “I earned a bad grade”

I think people need to take more individual responsibility for their life. I’m NOT trying to say that some people are born into severe disadvantages, but being grateful for what you do have always helps. I know I sound like a boomer grumbling about millennials but as someone of a younger generation (born after millennials actually) I see their point about “entitlement”. But they have it too lol, because I just have to pay their social security retirement fund

sorry to get a bit political but i do think the general point still stands
 
JessFR said:
Better question, how are so many people not depressed? I know reading this thread is pretty depressing to me.
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That’s a really great point that really reinforces the problems of modern day academia to me. All the research is ‘why things are wrong’ (inevitably patriarchy, racism, and capitalism) instead of research ‘why is that so good’. For example if you were concerned with poverty, sure the thing to do would be to research how wealth gets efficiently created? Instead the defining approach to research is giving expression to grievances. Anyway, this in the social sciences and humanities at any rate. My suggestion: look at the positives and understand what causes them.
 
abnormalities (ie. whats wrong) tends to pique human interest more than the normal, good things. So I suppose it makes sense we’d be drawn to examine the bad stuff. But I agree that it would be much better use of our time and money to look at why things work rather than finding everything that’s wrong
 
I think it's because the society we've cultivated doesn't have much room for delusions.
With constant interconnectivity, the steady stream of information stripping life from it's mysteries, more and more people are realizing life has no inherent meaning but to one day die; there's no intrinsic purpose or morals.
Most people don't want freedom in the true sense of the word. We are a species suffering from herd-mentality.
Apathy and decadence will lull us back into bondage.
 
JessFR said:
Better question, how are so many people not depressed? I know reading this thread is pretty depressing to me.
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Increasing apathy and fatalism when facing the clusterfuck that is humanity, leading to depravity; the only anti-dote to numb the virus of consciousness. There's so much shit, one simply doesn't have the energy to give a shit about anything. When you accept the futility of being alive, it's so absurd you can only laugh.

But I do think most people are depressed; but our collective modus operandi is fake it til you make it. I mean, how many are honest when asked how they're doing?

Also, we have more things to distract us, subliminate us, to anchor us to.
 
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