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Shoot, I must be clinically depressed too, because it seems pretty on point. The optimists must have figured out a good coping strategy for cognitive dissonanc
by pope_meat 5y ago
Shoot, I must be clinically depressed too, because it seems pretty on point.
The optimists must have figured out a good coping strategy for cognitive dissonance.
Looking on the bright side is...well, less than half of the full picture, if you ask me.
- seibelj 5y agoThere is no better time in the history of humanity to be alive for nearly all people (barring those in war zones / communism). We just cured a novel disease with a vaccine on the order of months, while prior diseases were repeated plagues that killed huge swaths of humanity over millennia. We have so much to be thankful for and so many good things and yet so many are depressed and unhappy.
- pope_meat 5y agohttps://www.informationliberation.com/files/deaths-of-despair-2017-study-1.jpg https://www.informationliberation.com/files/deaths-of-despai... It stops at 2017, but the trend is holding still in 2021, so, if the world is truly magical and better than any other time in history, why are we killing ourselves? Maybe I'm wrong, but it certainly seems like there is a problem, while a bunch of people in priveledged positions tell the rest of us to be happy.