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I'm not sure how many 13-17 year old teenagers were or are concerned with their ability to purchase a home.
More than you think. They are concerned about being independent, which means affording rent which leads them to think about buy vs rent.
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>In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression – surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent. Perhaps to a nihilist maybe that's not a bad thing, but to most that's neither good nor nihilism. T…
The US culture needs some changes. We’re still having children bringing guns to school to shoot their bullies. It happened before MySpace and Facebook. There are structural problems in a society where expressions of love are rarer than violence. Last I knew, kids were still largely growing up in schools where being smart is dumb and prosecuted through bullying. That’s sufficient for mass depression to climb when the…
Americans seem to bring guns to church to shoot church goers. They bring guns to cinemas to shoot patrons. They leave guns in their car's back seat so their infant can accidentally shoot them through the back of their own head.
I think the example of gun violence has a solution found outside the topic of teen depression.
Gun ownership and the romanticism around the 'right to bear arms' in the US is a whole deluded issue in itself.
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The US culture needs some changes. We’re still having children bringing guns to school to shoot their bullies. It happened before MySpace and Facebook. There are structural problems in a society where expressions of love are rarer than violence. Last I knew, kids were still largely growing up in schools where being smart is dumb and prosecuted through bullying. That’s sufficient for mass depression to climb when the…
> We’re still having children bringing guns to school to shoot their bullies. Americans seem to bring guns to church to shoot church goers. They bring guns to cinemas to shoot patrons. They leave guns in their car's back seat so their infant can accidentally shoot them through the back of their own head. I think the example of gun violence has a solution found outside the topic of teen depression. Gun ownership and t…
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Nihilism is the scourge of our age. It takes courage to create meaning and love life.
I agree. Out of curiousity, how have you found the meaning in your life?
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>In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression – surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent. Perhaps to a nihilist maybe that's not a bad thing, but to most that's neither good nor nihilism. T…
The US culture needs some changes. We’re still having children bringing guns to school to shoot their bullies. It happened before MySpace and Facebook. There are structural problems in a society where expressions of love are rarer than violence. Last I knew, kids were still largely growing up in schools where being smart is dumb and prosecuted through bullying. That’s sufficient for mass depression to climb when the…
You mean basically every society ever?
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For my son (17 y.o.) it is online games and phone use in general. He has - I hope - mild depression, which - I believe - is caused by his online habits. His mom and I thought taking his PC away from him would fix it. But then he falls into school-sleep cycle, that looks like full-blown depression. Yes, his grades are affected and in not a good way. What works for now is to participate in his life with him. As of now…
I mean, there is no way to know about what is happening in people's heads, so you may well have made the correct choice - however when I was 16-17, I played online games a fair bit and the reason for it was because I enjoyed them a lot and had friends on there I didn't have in real life. When I went to uni I met similar friends which led to my social life improving, but before then there really was no substitute for…
Before I even started reading, I knew it was going to be an attack at the phone. A few centuries ago, they'd attack books. Look back at videos from the 1950s and people didn't talk to each other on the train back then either, their noses were in books, magazines and newspapers. By the 80s, the nerdy kids had headphones and cassette players. By the 90s, people had discmans. The trouble with articles like this is they…
Nihilism is the scourge of our age. It takes courage to create meaning and love life.
That is existential nihilism.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Existential_nihilism
> According to the theory, each individual is an isolated being born into the universe, barred from knowing "why", yet compelled to invent meaning.
> The common thread in the literature of the existentialists is coping with the emotional anguish arising from our confrontation with nothingness, and they expended great energy responding to the question of whether surviving it was possible. Their answer was a qualified "Yes," advocating a formula of passionate commitment and impassive stoicism.