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From_Deep_Space on December 3rd, 2020 at 22:54 UTC »

“Kindly let me help you or you will drown,” said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.”

— Alan Watts

EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT on December 3rd, 2020 at 22:57 UTC »

Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

(Yes, we know that depression is often of purely genetic origin. We are referring here to those cases in which environment plays the predominant role.)

-Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future, paragraph 145.

white-van-man on December 4th, 2020 at 01:23 UTC »

Get a traditional blue-collar job. You'll be too tired for existential introspection.