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I hate articles like this. They are part of an entire genre of pseudo intellectual nonsense that seems to be this genius insight but directly ignores obvious ca
by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I hate articles like this. They are part of an entire genre of pseudo intellectual nonsense that seems to be this genius insight but directly ignores obvious causes.
They treat depression like it is some mystery of science when it is directly caused by…everything about modern society, institutions and lifestyles.
People in Africa living in villages don’t get depressed. People living in suburbs eating shitty food with no hope due to capitalism and crappy prison schools do.
The cause of depression is so obvious only a PHD would be able to write and publish a BS article like this, and it is total horse shit, and pretend it’s a mystery.
It’s not a mystery, they just want to try to solve it with crappy drugs that you don’t actually need rather than target the root problems, which they can’t target.
I hate these articles and think they are promoting an intellectual culture of pretending not to understand the obvious by drenching it in overly intellectualized nonsense.
This is a media coverup. We know what causes it.
- ako 4y ago> People in Africa living in villages don’t get depressed. Any data or studies on this?
- fragmede 4y ago> People in Africa living in villages don’t get depresse Holy shit yes they do, I don't know where this myth comes from! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667242122000173 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266724212...
- rgbrenner 4y agoIt's an old myth... like here's an article in American Anthropologist from 1934 talking about it: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1934.36.2.02a00090 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525... There's a lot of data showing it isn't true, but it’s one of those “facts” that feels true because there’s a lot of stressors and unhealthy things about modern life.
- gverrilla 4y agoAgreed. I had an introduction to this perspective long ago by reading what Karl Marx wrote about suicide [0]. 0: https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Suicide-Psychosocial-Issues-Karl/dp/0810116383 https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Suicide-Psychosocial-Issues-Karl...