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Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by uptownfunk on Sunday May 26, 2024 @04:54PM (#40485309)
People lack a support system. Before we lived in villages with lots of family and a very tightly woven social fabric. With technology and urbanization everyone is isolated. Covid isolation has exacerbated it. We are still evolving to create a race that can thrive in this new social setting after thousands of years of a different type of society. I prefer the former, my neighbors kids just randomly pop in almost daily, they have fun and it’s like a village and family. But I suspect society is progressing more towards this type of socially isolated type of dynamic, people on screens, to themselves. Easier to control us that way and better for disease transmission.
Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by weakfish on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:09PM (#40486459)
You lost me at “easier to control” - who? What? Where?
Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by uptownfunk on Sunday May 26, 2024 @09:23PM (#40486811)
If people are isolated and don’t have social support and are therefore more emotionally vulnerable and unstable (basically we are put into isolation to a lesser degree than prison inmates) then it is easier for the government to control us.
Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by weakfish on Sunday May 26, 2024 @11:13PM (#40487271)
Why do you believe the government seeks to control us? Genuine question
Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by uptownfunk on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:20AM (#40487519)
The government has laws that it makes you obey. American Values they want you to have. Money of yours that they take. How is it different from control?
Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by zo1 on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:43AM (#40487619)
Not OP. I don't think they actively want it or pursue it as some sort of conscious objective, it's just something that makes a lot of things easier for government. It's essentially gradient descent and the government following the thing that's slightly better for it, with no view of the bigger picture.