re: We are all addicts: Today's Youth Are Depressed, Here's Why...

Here, here!

That's one of the reasons I look forward to rationed care. We won't be spending trillions on futile care.

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Why is it that society becomes more suicidal and depressed when life is at it's easiest?

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Because people have been conditioned to circumvent the primal instincts we're all born with. If kids grew up poor today and had to struggle more, this would be less of an issue.

Society is purposely trying to destroy what it means to be a man or womman, trying to suppress our nature, looking down on those that struggle while promoting "first world problems"

People don't work out their conflicts through outward struggles, but suffer silently with inner struggles trying to fit in to this sanitized, urban, orchestrated world full of social propaganda.

Life's struggles naturally hone personality and character. Young people today are creating struggles because they have few, while in turmoil of who they really are.

Psychedelic medicinal medicines are the only hope of humanity truly waking up to reality and banishing this collective illusion that we all live in. Modern society has become disconnected from nature through technology, conditioning, media/religious/political/corporate propaganda. This has all been intentional in order to cut people off from realizing who they really are. The headlong advance and expedition into materialism over the past 500 years is now coming to an end. Time to go inward and jettison the cultural baggage. Psychedelics are nature's way of informing and educating us to these facts. If the mass of humanity doesn't soon wake up to these facts, it's curtains for the human race.

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My generation has been largely babied and treated like weak little fairies. fricking retarded older generations felt it appropriate to prevent my generation from experiencing anything "problematic".

Idiots.

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I interact with younger people quite a bit and they're absolutely nothing like this. (But I get how the internet can you give that impression.) As a matter of fact, we've had far more trouble with our older personnel than our younger ones. I know I've told this story before, but we were threatened with a lawsuit by one of our boomer employees because the air conditioner in her office didn't get as cold as she thought it should.

...and the absolute irony of baby boomers calling anyone else "snowflakes" will never fail to amuse me greatly

Terrorism, economic instability, and factional infighting are all symptoms of what is to come. Maybe it won't happen this generation or next, but it IS coming.

To cite specific examples from history you can see the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and even Imperial Germany. All were built upon an incredible superiority they had over their neighbors. Eventually one of two things would happen though:

1. Their neighbors caught up and then pressured the Power back to a more acceptable size or collapse.

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2. The Power would collapse under the weight of factional infighting.

The U.S. has been unique in the fact that it hasn't had a true rival for a neighbor in over a century. We've also been blessed with leadership who valued technological and military superiority for most of our existence, which has kept us ahead of the competition. Thus, short of a Superpower from half a world away attempting a suicidal invasion, we are safe from Scenario 1.

We are, however, more vulnerable to Scenario 2 than most Superpowers throughout history have been. Due to the melting pot culture we have promoted for so many years we have managed to take in a lot of different viewpoints and stances. Over time I fear that these cultural fractures will be our downfall.

Drugs and the Internet are going to be the end of everything.

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...and the absolute irony of baby boomers calling anyone else "snowflakes" will never fail to amuse me greatly

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Without a doubt the most entitled pricks who have ever walked the planet.

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World population has doubled in my lifetime. A self correction of some kind is necessary because continuing growth at this rate is not sustainable for the planet. You pick the method of self correction, but it needs to happen soon.

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It's going to start declining in 50 years

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You pick the method of self correction, but it needs to happen soon.

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we are subsidizing the breeding of those who wouldn't make it in the survival arena on their own.

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Well let's make damn sure we don't give them any sex education to teach them about birth control, or any contraceptives in case they learn about it on their own, and for the sake of all that is holy NEVER let them have an abortion if they accidentally get pregnant.