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>People were plenty miserable during the depression era
I wasn't just talking about the depression era but even then there was less crime and suicide and people were still more charitable/hospitable to each other on a regular basis and got on with working and having some idea of social duty and ambition whereas nowadays the miserbale people just waste away on drugs and meds in pure despair
>Meanwhile today we are seeing several decades long and continuing trend in decline of crime
relative to the size of the population
>You mean things that directly lead to WW2?
World War 2 was an inevitable consequence of World War 1 and its immediate aftermath due to the way certain countries like Germany were treated and policy decisions taken, the idea that it just sprang out of some inexplicable chaos and lawlessness and was just caused by people that were just evil for no reason is so wrong and ahistorical
>You had way more repression, hypocrisy, gatekeeping, stigmatisation
and without these things society has collapsed into even worse chaos in different ways. I reject your premise that people having social obligations and rules and a sense of shame is inherently wrong by default and that liberation from all hierachies and expectations is always inherently good
we live in a more free society now - but it is also one that is less virtuous and this is why it is worse than the previous repressive version
