All of this is a product of a stupid, inhuman way of doing things. Personal responsibility, they called it. Individual choice, they said. If you’re depressed, well, that must be a result of some faulty wiring in your frontal lobe. Here, take these pills and you’ll be OK enough to function within society. To serve the needs of the culture you live in. It’s somehow your own fault, even if the fault is somehow beyond your control. It’s still you that’s the problem. You had bad genes. You got sick when you were young. Your parents left you alone too much and you never adapted properly.
At what point does the culture you live in need psychotherapy and psycho-pharmaceutical intervention? When 40% of people are on antidepressants or antipsychotics? Well, give it 10 years and we’ll see if the world is still in denial. When we hit that metric, I’m sure the other 60% will be pathologized as suffering from asymptomatic depression and delusions of normality (Bonkers Institute, thanks for the phrase, ‘asymptomatic depression’. Google that – it’s fun shit).
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Very interesting sir. It’s our fault, yep, I knew it.
I like to think it’s Bill Gate’s fault. Then I can kill two birds with one stone, since I hate Windows. It brings me immeasurable sadness.
Hey, it it doesn’t get any better than that.
You can always use ubuntu
Or a Mac
I’ve heard this theory that being discontent is the natural state for humans.
You’re hungry (discontent), so you find food. Then you’re content until you become hungry again.
You’re cold, so you build a fire and warm up. The fire eventually goes out and you become discontent enough to start another fire.
It’s a never ending cycle of finding a situation untenable, creating a temporary solution, then reverting back to a state of discontent after the fix has worn off.
I’m not sure if human beings are hardwired to exist in Utopia. (If this theory is true).
The perception of being stuck in a hopeless situation will lead to discontent just as much as a lack of steaks and beer. What’s more, if that hopeless situation seems rigid and inescapable, the mind reaches for anything that seems like it might help. Drugs, booze, over-indulgence in mindless, anonymous sex, whatever. There is no utopia, but there is the ability to define how you live for yourself, rather than choosing from a predetermined list of options. It’s like a magician’s trick – ten different brands of cereal, all of them made in the same factory.
Well, being alive means you’re “stuck in a hopeless situation”. Even if you keep busy with distractions, diversions, goals and ambitions, it still ends with the same outcome despite how “successful” you were at playing the game.
I get what you’re saying, I just think it’s pointless to over-analyze the placement of patio furniture on a ship that’s sinking. Meet me at the bar, I’ll buy you a drink and we can all sing horrible karaoke as the ship plunges beneath the waves. (You don’t have to pay me back in the after-life, either).
This is the first time for me to see this theory. After some thought it seems to fit our lot as humans.
I think it flips causality, to be honest. Sure, discontent is a constant, but all things being equal, the natural answer is to change things up. To reform stagnant patterns. When that’s no longer possible, the only thing that can be reformed is the mind as it relates to the inflexible world you find yourself in.
People are stupid theyre fucking dumb ass animals with complexes.
Stupid compared to what? We’re the smartest thing in the known universe.
@AgentQ
having a mind/consciousness/awareness doesn’t make us de facto “the smartest thing in the known universe”.
It certainly gives us the possibility to be so, but the way we use them shows that we are not.