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The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

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Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

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lo_zamoyski wrote: post #412
goethes_kind wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in my 30s but I'm feeling this so hard. Growing up we used to have these kid/youth centres that were run by local Catholic organizations. We used to hang out there after school. Ostensibly the point was that there'd be 30 minutes of catechism doctrine, but we didn't really care about that. To us it was just a the place where everyone would be. I miss that so much. A place where you can just go and meet people you…

Consider the following: 1. The chief unit and source of community is the family. The married couple, the family, have been deteriorating for some time. It shouldn't be surprising that the consequences would spread outward. Societies are a manner of extended family organized according to the principle of subsidiary. 2. American culture especially is hyperindividualistic. It conceives of people not as persons, but as i…

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Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

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Post by luzojeda »

0xedd wrote: post #123

Heh, come on. It's the breakup of the family unit by the woke plague. It's time to face the music and let children be children.

Gays! I knew it was them! Even when it was the atomization of society, loss of third places, destruction of the middle class and so many other things, I knew it was them.

Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

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Post by luzojeda »

frithsun wrote: post #44

We lack the moral courage to be honest about why real world community disintegrated and are therefore doomed to suffer these pedantic lectures that miss the point and point in random directions.

Seems like you lack the moral courage as well since you seem to be implying something but are not brave enough to explicitly say it.

Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

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Post by s1artibartfast »

bilbo0s wrote: post #396
s1artibartfast wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or simply that fewer marginally good fit marriages are occurring. Fewer teen marriages, shotgun weddings, ect. There were always a lot of financial imperatives to wed.

There were always a lot of financial imperatives to wed. The point is that now the financial imperative is not to wed. ("Girlfriend get serious! Why marry some loser who can't even buy a house?" or "Bro what? Do you know what will happen if you get divorced?") The financial imperative is not to go to church. Working on Sunday has become the norm as people are regularly expected to be available on the weekends. This i…

I think we have very different perceptions of the world, but I don't have much interest in having a discussion predicated on quotes from imaginary characters.
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