Re:Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
by bluedevil2k on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:59PM
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> Mental disorders are at an all-time high
Please provide some references that show mental illness is higher now than during the Dark Ages. Or in Egypt among the slaves under the Ptolemy's.
Re:Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
by bananaface on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:39PM
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Infinitely more people are being diagnosed now than in the dark ages
Re:Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
by hevelvarik on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:10PM
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That’s probably the underpinning of his correct argument that we have zero clue and no leg to stand on to claim that modernity has more mental illness than any other, much less every other, period in history
Re:Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
by bananaface on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:39AM
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That was the joke. ;)
Mental disorders are at an all-time high. Extinction levels are well beyond their natural baseline rate, due to human activity. Environmental destruction is at an all-time high. Now, with the Internet, we've managed to build a system that can amplify nearly every negative aspect of human society but at the same time offers a shield of sorts from those effects.
Yes, humans are likely to survive in the same way that a virus survives. We find a way but it isn't always a virtuous path. We humans have yet to understand that nature is a balance and that we choose to operate outside of that balance. Everytime we progress we invent new ways for people and other animals to suffer.