How long before our minds break

Modern society has completely destroyed the average persons mental health. Almost everyone nowadays has stress issues. Most also have anxiety and depression. Suicide rates are going up especially for white men. Most people are also addicts. Alcohol, weed, hard drugs, porn, internet. Many young men are on ADD medication. Most adults are on some form of anti-depressant or sleep aid.I can't see this going on for much longer. What are the long term consequences of this.

It'll only get worse unless Trump is president. The long term consequences will be more suicides, unfortunately, just because these things tend to get worse.

Trump's wife and daughter are transgendered.

Say goodbye to sanity.

I became buddhist and already feel much better

Are you a true Buddhist or the western off-brand version

"I gave up all hope of happiness, now I'm much better"

Buddhism is the worst flavor of nihilism.

>Almost everyone nowadays has stress issues
Your ancestors had these too. But unlike you, they didn't whine about it. They just took it as it came and drank/used drugs to quell it.

Stop whining about your "hard life" you pampered spoiled little shit.

I sucked a horses dick and became a successful philanthropist

Not really. You go to nomadic and tribal cultures that still exist and their stress levels are extremely low.

War, mostly.

You know how urbanization caused depression, stress and generally feeling shitty? As I see it, artificial environments and a lot of people sharing an area makes people anxious and miserable. The internet amplified this, but maybe globalization as well. Either way, once I finish uni, I'm moving to the countryside. Thankfully I'm aiming to be a freelancer, so that way I could work on the farm and raise the children without leaving too often.

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>and their stress levels are extremely low.
[citation needed]

Where's your empirical proof?

Ted was partly right.

The consequences are already happening, why do you think western countries have unsustainable fertility rates and have to resort to immigration to survive?

Nothing about the modern world is natural.

It will never get better until people stop using the internet en masse or it's destroyed. You and I are part of the problem. Supporting Sup Forums, anonymity, and internet "freedom" is just another ruse to keep us controlled.

He was ahead of his time

By about 200 years

Not long. Especially with society now telling us things that we know are not true, are. The modern world is a huge act that is becoming increasingly difficult to play.

That is related, but not exactly the same.

Mostly though, it is a consequence of global overcrowding.

Nobody is special.

The world is huge.

You are replaceable.

There is no god. There is nothing out there to watch out for you.

You don't know your neighbors. You don't live in the place where you grew up. You don't know what your ancestors did.

There is no more context for life except to gain as much pleasure and wink out of existence before it all catches up to you.

THAT is the problem with modern society. There's too many goddamn people, and too many people living amongst strangers with entirely different value systems.

Only because social security exists.
That ponzi scheme was pushed onto western culture in the 1900s and has been a plague ever since.

You can shift your view to g-d, live with gaining his wisdom by understanding his will.

>meme religion for hipsters

Fuck off, pretender. Your kind like the Jewess with the nails who pretends to be the 450th incarnation of Princess Whatsits make me sick.

Can I get the copyright to your post, please?

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[destrudo rising]

don't kill yourself white man
join the reich
if you lose you go to valhala
if you win you gain the world

if I told you all the answer, you wouldn't believe me.

The mouse utopia

Keep in mind that suicide statistics don't include a lot of overdose users or people that die a few days in the hospital. It's common practice to list these patients as dying due to trauma or drugs rather than suicide since it allows for easier claims on life insurance.

Don't have another panic attack in here too

The earth is far from overcrowded though, we still live in an age of incredible waste and inefficiency. Most of the loss of identity comes from the forced globalization from corporations and multiculturalism. A lot of these similar sentiments were felt at the end of the 19th century during the first period of globalization.

That's not proof of anything. That's mice.

In that other thread, I'm "x2S6srzb".

You think its bad being on the drugs?

Imagine how things will be when Shit Hits the Fan and they cant get their prescriptions, cut off cold turkey

we talking full Mad Max

If you can look at the impotent rage of your attackers ITT and see yourself at one point in your life, you are on the right path.

>Since about 30 % of Earth’s surface is land, this means that the total area of land is 0.3 * 515 ≈ 155 million square km, about half of which is habitable for humans. With roughly 7 billion people alive today, we can conclude that there is 0.011 square km habitable land available per person. This corresponds to a square with 100 m ≈ 330 ft length and width.
>This corresponds to a square with 100 m ≈ 330 ft length and width.
>This corresponds to a square with 100 m ≈ 330 ft length and width.
>This corresponds to a square with 100 m ≈ 330 ft length and width.
>a fucking leaf

lol what I'm not the same guy

Resource crowding. Footprint crowding. Noise crowding.

Just because we could live packed even closer together in nightmare slums doesn't mean it's a good idea. Human beings are social, but we need space. Most people can't remember but a few hundred folks at most. That's a LIFETIME of people.

Currently, in the information age, we live in an overcrowded idea-space, separated from people we would actually like to live with by hundreds of miles, while we live next to virtual strangers who we would never stand to live near us in any other time in history.

>What are the long term consequences of this.

Death. Then, the next generation.

When you get cut off from your scrip, it's best to use better more illegal drugs.

No more ritalin? Switch to flakka. Never look back.

I would. Try me, please.

There's different sects of Buddhism.
How about this one:

"Happiness and Sorrow are two sides of the same coin - you can't have one without the other."

Out of context quotes from one religious text are as valueless as out of context quotes from any other.

The bit about not living where I grew up and where my ancestors lived hits me pretty hard.

I may have to return some day. Whenever I'm at home on the farm my family owned for hundreds of years, I feel very much at peace. It's quite strange.

When I realized that desire leads to unhappiness, I stopped desiring and instead focus on directly what's in front of me. Once I realized that, everything else kind of melted away. Imho all the emotions that we feel are either contrasted with the past or what we expect in the future. Those two things don't actually exist so there's no reason to let that affect me now. As far as memery goes, I don't think I'm memeing because it makes me feel more at ease with myself

pic related, and it's only going to keep getting worse
in part it's ideal for capitalism as people try to keep themselves as occupied with frivolities as they can but it's risky as it also affects their productive output

OYE FUCK YOU
SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK

It really does mean a lot. And it's the same feeling that people who grew up without a parent might feel: A sense of belonging and legacy are gone.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to live in a town where my family's lived for ten generations and was a founding family of.

I don't know where you get the idea that you have to give up on happiness in Buddhism. That's wrong.
In fact, if you lead a good life, you will be reborn in a better situation next time, resulting in greater happiness. Buddhism just teaches that it is childish to assume that a good life ONLY consists of happy events. There will be times of sorrow, too.
For example, the idea that your problems will vanish once you win the lottery, or once you marry, or once you get the job you wanted is foolish.

My grandpa owned a farm at a village near Königsberg. It feels very weird to imagine going back there and trying to live there. Yet I cannot but wonder if I would be happier there? I always feel out of place where I live now and I feel no (ethnic) connection to the people around me.
Must be great to live among your kind.

Personally, I find the idea of a religion that tells you to lie down and get fucked in the ass unjustly because it is punishment for misdeeds done in a past life abhorrent.

The current life is too important to throw away. Past-life context is impossible to prove, impossible to know.

It is a convenient way to tell unwanted people that they deserve an unjust lot in life as you oppress them.

True, I agree. It's just a means of upholding the caste system: Know your place and do not challenge your superiors - in the next life you will be rewarded.
Same thing with christian religions: do not challenge the god-given order and in the afterlife you shall be rewarded.

However - if you see past this medieval scheme, there is an underlying current that incites you to try and do good in your life and to respect all life. I like that. Self-improvement and Self-empowerment are also big issues in Buddhism. The idea that it is yourself - and not some god only - who can achieve enlightenment and personal peace is nice.

What am I doing wrong? According to the fossil record my family has lived in the area I inhabit since the last Ice Age (and I am not kidding - I have confirmed blood ties to a caveman find from around here), but it all means nothing to me. It's just another rundown shithole village full of poorly-behaved foreigners and criminals. My family is completely broken and the only place I actually feel at peace is a lake roughly seven hours from here - which I can't live at because it's supposed to be a nature reserve.

Buddhists rape little boys. Enjoy your rape culture.

I've already been finding meditation helps me out phenomenally.

Also protip: Modern society no longer nurtures or encourages masculinity. We're currently living in the Age of the Feminine. It's all up to you now to ensure that you retain your manhood. Read up on stoicism, and good luck.

I believe your problem is perspective. Your vantage point has been poisoned along with your view. I wish I could help you brother. I am sorry.

You think people who got grabbed from their ancestral homes and thrown into an alien culture might feel that way too?

Very close to 100% right, actually.

That very well may be.

My fondest notion is to just stand up, walk into the woods and survive in the wild for as long as my skills might allow. Maybe they'd find me in a bog or cave someday and put me up naked and dead on a cold metal slab like my earliest ancestor, for bored Semitic schoolchildren to try and spit on me while their underpaid teachers are busy smoking outside. And something about that seems fitting somehow. Like it's actually the only thing me and those thousands of years of it all are good for.

But I don't want to think like that and yet can't help it. What the fuck is "home"?

Thank you, however. Do not be sorry. I am mostly happy someone cares. And I should likely end my blogposting now that I think of it.

It varies.

Some cultures and locales are highly compatible. Some are less compatible.

Have you never had the feeling that even though it may be shit, home is home and nowhere else in the world will you find another home like it? Your circumstances may be at fault: shitty family, criminals and foreigners. Imagine it were not so, would you not feel good about living on the soil of your ancestors? I also can't believe that you have to travel 7 hours to find peace. You just haven't explored your home enough.

There are two kinds of successful people:

Those that feel a sense of obligation to the people who have surrounded them.

And those that don't.

I'm talking about blacks in America

I don't think this inna woods shit is necessary. Think back to high school. Wasn't that a community that you felt like you belonged to?

I think governments should aggressively tax sugary shit, coffee, alcohol, illegal drugs (after being made legal) etc.

It is entirely possible to create a new culture.

WE WUZ KANGS, Yakub, and the like is part of that. It's the shitty part, but it's a part nonetheless.

Black people have a dialect(mostly, they adopted the language of the rural south), have their own naming conventions(borrowed from mormons, for the most part), and have a shared historical context of slavery and segregation.


I want you to remember that the kind of modern neuroses you see out of black people come from black folks who come from cities: Places where NOBODY has a common context.

I would love to feel something like that. Anything like that at all. But really, other than being painfully aware of which nook or cranny in our historic city wall houses which gypsy's "secret" weed stash there is just nothing there. The buildings in the core of town are still medieval. But by night I can't move around without fear of my life and by day there's no space to enjoy the sight, as we need beggars and postmodern statues and fish-sale stalls (we're in the fucking mountains for god's sake), but heaven forbid anybody at least limit truck traffic. Or fix a roof. I could tell you every old legend and history trivium and even ghost story, but the castle is now just a wreck filled up with concrete to resemble a tower from far away. And to suggest that maybe we would all live better if I wasn't the only one not littering just tends to get one stabbed or beaten up. The land of my ancestors seems to be more like a land given away an age ago. Belongs to everyone, so the mayor says in between kissing his leatherboy. Nobody other than him to vote for left. Frankly I feel more like I have explored this hell too much.

It's certainly possible to have a community or at least community spaces.

It is why I don't begrudge parks and community centers and the like, nor do I begrudge malls.

Engineered spaces where people can feel comfortable are a GREAT idea, and are an important public service.

I find it interesting that every human currently living on the planet is the successful product of several billion years of evolution. The fat, the ugly, the dumb, the shortsighted...

Go live some years somewhere else. It'll be good for your perspective. Come back and become mayor.

Fuck, this thread hit he hard. About two years ago I was diagnosed with "mild depression", went to a psych which was bullshit, but eventually got over it.

A year ago I graduated, got a full time job. Present day, feeling like shit again because I realize that I sit in a cubicle or office for 8+ hours per day, go home, eat, sleep, repeat.

When I go back out to nature I feel better but don't have the money for a house in the country or mountains yet. In the mean time I'm going to start depression medication because this mood sucks but being reliant on big pharma for something induced by society makes me feel even worse.

Well, those are the groups too insignificant to kill. It's not just the warriors that survive. It's mostly those that do not give a wet shit about surrendering, serving and sucking cock so they might get to breed more vermin before some blessed plague finally wipes them away. Our evolution was successful while the guiding principle across whole cultures was to constantly advance, rather than rack up the most debt in the shortest amount of time.

Taxing does nothing except make people have less money. Tobacco, alcohol, gas - all taxed to hell and beyond and people still buy it.
If you want people to improve themselves, you have to better their living conditions and raise their intelligence. High IQ societies (Japan, Korea) don't have to deal with this shit.

Not everyone can, or should be a leader.

Human society needs leaders, middlemen, laborers, caretakers, and the like.

It is up to those who are successful to forgive the weaknesses or ill fortune of those who are of lower status than them.

I did. From the big cities of this country to random stretches of others. From Stockholm to Tananarive. But everywhere just looked like the same garbage dumb, sponsored by Coca Cola. Maybe I should start believing in mental illnesses and seek some sort of therapy.

If I didn't smoke weed before bed at night, I'd have already gone insane. True stuff. This world is fucking nuts, and probably beyond redemption, gotta cope by any means necessary.

I know several people like you. Drugs only make it worse. Go find a sport you like. That really helps. Self-improvement is the only answer if you feel powerless.

tell me please.

Well, if you can't find happiness outside, maybe it is time to start on the inside instead.

You are right about self improvement. In fact I was thinking about that earlier. I went skiing a couple months ago for the first time and did really well after two days. I haven't stopped thinking about skiing since. But I have no motivation to find a sport at this point. Barely have motivation to cook anymore.

Perhaps. I'm going to have a drink and turn in for the night. At least the sunrises around here are nice.

Motivation is the keyword. Nothing will ever change unless you muster the will to break the downward cycle. Your job is not your life - it's a means to keep you fed. Go do a sport you really enjoy. Being social with other people that share a common interest is more than just physical excercise. Why not learn a new skill? How about japanese cooking or blackforging? Ever thought about becoming a blackbelt in Karate?
And if that doesn't help - go marry and have a kid. You won't worry about yourself or motivation anymore. You'll be so full of worry for your family and so busy that your current problems will look like heaven.

internet and mass media and drugs/alcohol are all escapism fro reality. and the human mind is fundamentally about acclimating itself to it's surroundings and input. so as people adjust to pharmaceuticals, vidya, intergenerational television damage, etc., the human soul diminishes more and more. the human species has already cmmitted suicide and there's no turning back; we just havn'e realized the fact yet.

Maybe you never left.
My family home is in Ireland, and when I was growing up I really hated it. We never really had money and life was pretty tough. From an objective point of view you'd say it was a shithole.
I've lived in quite a few different places since I left home, matured quite a lot, and now when I go home everything just feels familiar and timeless. I can feel that I'm treading the same path as my father and grandfather and previous generations, and that no matter where I go in the world, it will always be the place where I belong. I feel it on a deep, almost spirtual level. Time slips by without a care, I could let my days run by and die there content.

I think hits the nail on the head as well when he says that we live among people thay in the past we would never have stood to live alongside. In the past, social connections were formed over much shorter distances and a much longer period of time. Society feels more superficial and transient now by comparison, and the myriad of different values subverts the morality that used to be universal in communities. The sense of belonging is gone.

There are people in my father's generation that would talk about the pillars that communities were based around. Only when I grew older did I realise what they were talking about and how important it was.

What are buildings?

Even in extremely dense places like in east Asia, it is far from nightmare slum conditions. And even in these places there are large regions of non urbanized environment all over the place. This is speaking as someone that has lived in Hong Kong, one of the most dense populations in the world.

>What are the long term consequences of this

Look up "The Beautiful Ones" mice experiment. In the experiment mice were basically given a utopia in order to test the results of overpopulation. Overpopulation however never occured. Instead, the peak of the population was still a thousand individuals short of the maximum population. The population became over-anxious, then aggressive, then territorial and finally reclusive. All the while more and more male mice became even more reclusive than the previous generation until all their coats of fur and nests were tidy, yet no female mateswere to be seen.

This is the exact stage we see ourselves at if the experiment is anything to judge in comparison to humans. Males are just now beginning to become reclusive and in the background is agitation on the cusp of violent posturing.

We are just now at the end of our current society, my philosophy is enjoy every day like it was your last.

Ah, I'd missed your posts above.
Take care and goodnight, user.