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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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