We've become the saddest sort of hedonist culture, the kind that develops because caring about anything else in any way that elevates you as an individual designates you prey for the crowd's hungry maw
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It's not many generations ago that we were basically a loose-knit nation of criminally independent scofflaws. Now those people are nutcases we laugh at while our children hang themselves in their closets and we fantasize about the ~10 years we'll get between retirement & death
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A puzzle that irked me when I was younger: why do people kill themselves? Why don't they run away? Show up in a new town with a new identity? Rob a bank? Try heroin? Shouldn't anything be on the table? I didn't understand that if they still had any such spark, they could live
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This reflects a larger confusion, btw: that maybe more money (rob a bank) or euphoric brain chemistry (heroin) would help. Maybe they would, for some. But I now think a sense of inescapable, universal personal impotence is the brainworm that's rotting most of us out
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It might have something to do with living in a society that doesn't have a strong preference for whether they kill themselves or become a person who can live well
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I feel like linking The Last Psychiatrist to you would be utterly redundant, but that thought always struck my from their "why don't they just rise up?" piece - how effective society is at completely eliminating defection as an option, even w/ death as an alternative.
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Wouldn’t some semblance of hope be necessary for all those things?
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Yes. The question is how people come to believe that their circumstances are irrelevant to their ability to find something worth staying alive for
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Sometimes the "seeing yourself the door" exit seems the most societally beneficial.
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I doubt that most suicidal people are killing themselves for the greater good. This is not about what they ought to do, it’s about the difference between what we predict they would do and what they actually do.
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Because they are trying to escape themselves. The irony is that their negative self view likely comes from other people. Bit its an invisible infection.
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