>>212424725I'm not the same anon, but I don't even think it is something exclusive to capitalism, it is also happening in communist China and in North Korea, so it is more like an modernity thing. Maybe during the transition from villages and rural living to cities and urban living, we left things behind that we shouldn't leave behind.
I'm saying this, because if you read Man's Search for Meaning, humanity's capability of enduring things with an positive outlook in life is ridiculously high. Of course that a bunch of people died, however the ones that didn't, a lot of them managed to be just fine afterwards (despite Jews probably being the most neurotic people on Earth, and that maybe this has something epigenetic to do with it, but what do I know, right?).
Well, where was I? Oh tenacity, right? So maybe something in our environment is making us weaker, or something in our old environment used to make us stronger, or maybe even there are multiple factors and it is a mix of those two things. The fact is that it does look like we were getting smarter as time passed, but at the same time, it did seem that we also got more fragile considering our ability to withstand mental breakdowns and psychological stress.
I'm just saying that this whole people being more mentally ill might not be because people are having more access to psychiatrists, and it would be more like then being more neurotic because of some whatever reason. Specially considering that they usually won't look for help or even take meds if their mental condition wouldn't be crippling, there is this too. This whole taking meds as if it is fucking nothing is definitely a new thing that big pharma manage to push to people using a fuck ton of marketing.
Anyway, whatever, this is not my problem, so it is not like I'm that worried about it, because I'm not supposed to solve this shit.