Americans LOVE to blame EVERYTHING on drugs, or alcohol, or video games, or whatever easier thing it is to blame. People do drugs BECAUSE their lives are broken, BECAUSE they feel depressed, NOT the other way around. I mean sure, there are a few who are sane/happy who try it and can’t stop. But most who do drugs do them BECAUSE they are unhappy or have some issues with life, and drugs help them cope/escape.
It’s so annoying and disgusting to see the general populace just brush everything aside like, “oh these ppl are just addicts, and everything is their fault.” Just like how everyone blames ppl for having depression. The EASY and LAZY and CALLOUS thing is to brush everything aside and blame that ONE thing- drugs, alcohol, video games, etc.
**When the reality is that life in America is FUCKING BROKEN.**
We are depressed due to money issues, job issues, lack of opportunities, shit bosses, shit coworkers, shit family, shit parents, shitty drs, lack of real healthcare in the US, high rents, high cost of food, hgh cost of everything, shitty ass neighbors, shitty crappy neighborhood, unable to get out of a shit life, etc.
But fixing REAL LIFE problems is hard- so ppl do the easy and lazy thing and blame EVERYTHING on either drugs, alcohol, video games, or social media, etc. And OFC, BLAME the individual.
I am so TIRED of idiots having such a simplistic mentality. But ppl intentionally do bc they DO NOT CARE.
That’s the long and short of it-
1- Life in America is FUCKED up and BROKEN.
2- Americans just don’t give a shit about others.
I would apply it to the whole world but since I haven’t lived anywhere other than shithole USA (dozens of states and cities), I can’t generalize it to the rest of the world- tho I imagine it’s pretty much the same elsewhere. Maybe slightly LESS shittier ppl. Maybe…