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Drugs, alcohol, and suicide. All are things people turn to when they want to escape. The question is, what are people escaping? Loneliness? Poverty?
by symlinkk 8y ago
Drugs, alcohol, and suicide. All are things people turn to when they want to escape. The question is, what are people escaping? Loneliness? Poverty?
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- emodendroket 8y agoDeindustrialization and the attendant effects I'd guess.
- acjohnson55 8y agoLack of sense of purpose
- p1mrx 8y agoPeople don't need a reason to escape; they need better reasons to stay. Traditionally that's been the role of religions, but what's the replacement? How can we give humanity a reason to live, in a scalable manner, without relying on fictional axioms?
- symlinkk 8y agoFamily. Men and women need to care for each other and for their offspring. It’s ingrained in all of us.
- choko 8y agoSome people take drugs out of curiosity or just for fun. Many drugs make you feel good. A sense of euphoria is nice even if you have nothing else wrong. Not every drug user is trying to escape something.