>>24474413 (OP)
why do you resent me?

>>24474413 (OP)
slop

I hate that because if I go in for therapy they tell me what to believe and how to breathe correctly, and undercut all of my input. Also I end up spending 14 hours a week on that, have no free time left, and some of us have to work for a living and not get to scam vulnerable people out of 3x their salary from an air conditioned office.

this is true but it's not because of social media

>>24474413 (OP)
low effort loser post

>>24474450

vaccines + garbage food + sedentary life style + social media

>>24474450
its actually because mental causality decreases with each successive generation. the boomers were more free than gen x, gen x more than the millennials, and millennials to Z. what we're seeing is Spinoza's monad devouring freedom.

>>24475162
The pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.

>>24475508
I wasn't arguing for that if you knew how to read.

>>24475563
If each generation is subject to a declining trend line, then you are confirming that struggling individuals within later generations are encountering structural problems associated with their place along the trend line, not anything they have done. If society is in decline, and we can chart that by an increasing helplessness as time progresses, then, categorically, more and more people are helpless through no fault or choice of their own.

>>24475797
Because its not on an individual level but a group level. Stop thinking in modern terms of social analysis.

>>24474413 (OP)
No I'm not, I'm actually pretty happy and content. Maybe it's because I pray the Rosary every day.

Society is extremely loud.
Loud noises are linked to a host of disorders like increased hypertension and anxiety.
There are numerous studies proving this for the sound of traffic.
If you go out to a music bar or a gig, it's deafeningly loud to the point people now bring along musician grade ear plugs (I do).
The last time I went to the gym, I could feel the god awful music in my throat.
If you're young and want to do something on the weekend, everyone is going to a nightclub. Also painfully loud, to the point you can't actually talk to someone next to you.
Not even club goers like this which is why they all cram into the smoking area.
You go to the cinema to watch a movie instead and the dialogue is a whisper while the explosions are deafening. It's nauseating.
You exit the cinema in a daze and head to the attached arcade only to walk into a wall of sound from the racing machines to the gun games to the foosball to the air hockey.
Sweating, you push through the glass door to get out onto the street. The moment your foot collides with the movement, you're overwhelmed by the sound of a jackhammer or the engine of a truck at some construction site which are just omnipresent in modern life for some reason.

I tried walking through the forest and even several kilometers out of town, I could still hear the awful din of the traffic. I don't even live in a city.
One time I walked as far out as I could muster while reserving enough energy to make it home. At long last, I was finally free of the loudness and could enjoy the pleasant sounds of nature alone. Then I heard an immense droning overhead and looked up to see some irritating hobbyist in his stupid biplane zipping through the sky. I really hope he crashed and burned and if he managed to survive I swear I would have set upon him like some tribal from Papua New Guinea except instead of eating his brain I would have eaten his ears for which he clearly had such contempt that they would better serve as nutrition for me than for him to deafen throughout a life of abuse.

An understated reason for the superiority of literature to other hobbies is that's silent.

>>24475825
Note: This user is on the autism spectrum!

>>24474413 (OP)

I became anxious because I was bullied and physically abused since childhood. Not because of some gay shit like social media

>>24475825
Sorry bro, couldn't quite catch that. Could you speak up a little? Thanks bro

>>24475804
If I get sorted into a group with worse outcomes, and then I have a worse outcome, it's fair to point to the fact that I was sorted into a group where I was going to be more likely to have worse outcomes.

>>24474413 (OP)
No I'm not.

>>24474413 (OP)
But I'm not?

>>24474413 (OP)
>>24474450
It's more because of the internet in general.

Have you ever thought that maybe the average citizen was never meant to have the level of knowledge that the internet gives you? To have even the approximate idea of how much the powerful people don't give a shit about them? I say approximate because obviously there's still a lot of things kept from the broader public, but even with the info available on the internet, it's only logical to get depressed. Everyday you get reminded just how helpless you are. You read about all these problems in the world, but there's nothing you can do to make a real change. Nothing at all. And the people that could are all part of an incestuous self-perpetuating profit machine. It's extremely easy to feel helpless when this get subconsciously drilled into your brain every day. Not intentionally, just because you have the info.

The ideal citizen was something like a dumb 80s trucker: extremely ignorant, narrow-minded, loyal, with a simple outlook on life. That kind of person was unlikely to get depressed and very likely to reproduce. He didn't know what he wasn't supposed to know, he unironically naively believed he was a part of the chosen nation of the holy good guys fighting the atheist/communist/whatever forces of evil, he had a sense of purpose. He looked around and he saw a good, fair world. And the things that weren't fair he just ignored or tuned out, or they never reached him at all. But this is much harder to do now. I feel like this is a huge factor to "growing depression rates". People in the past simply didn't have access to the information about how much the people in power don't give a shit, and how overwhelmingly, paralyzingly difficult it would be to make any meaningful change at all.

>>24475825
based

>>24476857
I would say there's more to it than that, but I get what you mean. More and more we are forced to look upon the outside/political world. 100 years ago such matters didnt extensively concern you until it was in your face. You were the centre of your world and outside wars, conflicts, political issues and all that shit was just fine print on a newspaper (and before that, barely heard of.)

Now we HAVE to have an opinion on every single issue. We are overdosed with information 24/7 to the point that entire crises happen in a weeks and are forgotten as the next crisis comes about.

>>24476808
No one chooses their group!

@grok is this true?

>>24475825
Unfathomably based.
>>24476454
Subhuman.

>>24474413 (OP)
cool

>>24476883
I don't watch news. Sometimes while walking through room I catch a glimpse of new war in the living room TV and get sudden desire to get "to the bottom of these things" , buy and read books that will help me understand genesis of Syria conflict of Palestine conflict or Iran/Israel history but I quickly get sidetracked and forget it until the next glimpse

so what

>>24475825

when i had nothing to do i was never anxious

>damage a generation with lead, seed oils, cadmium and endocrine disruptors
>shocked when they're anxious and depressed

>>24474413 (OP)
I would imagine evil hanging on to the good slip through like sand through their fingers.