re: Are we, as a society, doomed?

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I'd say folks are less happy with their lives because social media distorts what you should expect out of it.

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So life really isn't bad, people are going through hell because they think it's bad?

Nah...

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I would love to know exactly what they did to track mental health in 1953

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Well, I mean this is an easy one, dunno why you'd want to see from '53 till now, this is good enough:



Life has gotten easier, yet suicides are increasing.

I'm sure you're just a contrarian though, antidepressant use, fatherless homes, bankruptcies, are also at an all-time high. I'm sure you'd consider that happy times? Why? Because everyone has a Facebook account, flat screen TV, and an smart phone?

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So life really isn't bad, people are going through hell because they think it's bad?

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Correct. Social media typically shows the maybe top 5% of individuals' life. What you see is other people on vacation overseas, being in a perfect relationship, seemingly never in any financial trouble, etc.

You don't see the reality of peoples' lives. Instead, you see this Utopian viewpoint that is impossible to live up to. But this doesn't keep folks from thinking their relationships are fricked up because they have trouble but other people seemingly don't. Or that you live a shitty boring life because everybody else is out on vacation.

Folks get that thrown in their face while never seeing the other 95% of peoples' lives that are just like theirs. Marital issues, financial difficulties, etc.

That creates a false perception of inadequacy and what people should expect out of their lives. It's an expectation that is almost impossible to live up to.

also, just to show the sucide rate is not rising since the utopian 50s 60s and 70s

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Even if that is true, quality of life has risen dramatically as well as opportunities for minorities, women, and the lower class.

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It just shows peoples happiness remains relatively unchanged when looking at it from a macro level throughout the years.....

Life has almost gotten too easy so people have become incredibly soft

I guess what I’m trying to say is there’s too much Tech... Dawg.

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Correct

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So the suicide rate jumped 25% because of social media?


Bro, that's a symptom, not a cause.

There's an uptick in depression, there's an uptick in smart phone use but there's nothing solid to showcase coorelation between the news and depression and suicide

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So the suicide rate jumped 25% because of social media?

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I would say that is a large part of the issue, coupled with veterans returning from war.

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Are we, as a society, doomed?

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Second law of thermodynamics, bitches

1) its irreversible
2) its an expression of the universal principle of decay
3) its happening

Yes.