Are we more depressed because we're getting smarter?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

See? Every fucking time this thread bumps...

Studies have shown this thread to be a leading cause of depression.

ilu junkie 

[zarathustrasbastardson]

Do some pushups - or would that depress you too?

[Doktor Howl]

See? Every fucking time this thread bumps...

Studies have shown this thread to be a leading cause of depression.

[Meunster]

I don't get depressed as I get smarter,  but I do become more of an asshole.

Suppose one day I'll learn not to be?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't get depressed as I get smarter,  but I do become more of an asshole.

Suppose one day I'll learn not to be?

Yep, most likely.

[Acosmicist]

Random thought: people are (in general terms, in western society) less happy than they may have been in generations past. This is only in part correlated with the distressing economic situation, there was a lot of vague anxiety/distress/depression going on culturally in the 90s, too. Take into account the fact that people (in general terms, in western society) are by all reasonable measurements getting smarter, and that smartness is correlated with mental health problems, and you have to ask: have we hit the tipping point where the majority of people are at significant risk of mental health concerns due to their intelligence?

People are getting depressed because they can mentally afford to be troubled by insignificant bullshit.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Every. Fucking. Time.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Every. Fucking. Time.

It's pretty awesome, in a way.  They follow the handbook to the letter, and it serves as a built-in dipshit barometer.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm tidying up.

Do I leave this thread the way it is, out of tradition? 

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I'm tidying up.

Do I leave this thread the way it is, out of tradition? 

Yes please. This thread is the canary

[Lake of Lethe]

I don't consider myself depressed, I conceive of it as a mirror stuck right in my face!
In effect I am viewing my own actions and I find those actions wanting. Is this intelligence or egotistical behavior?
Do I portray myself as others "see" me or am I truly attempting to validate my own considered opinion of ME?

This world is at best dysfunctional.... or actually it may be functioning correctly by design?
If by design then the chaotic nature which I see is but a veneer across the order which coincidence and synchronistic actions validate?

I don't know, if I did I wouldn't be here on this forum!

I find the greater percentage of "humans"(which I have had cause to entertain) ..... well shall we say limited and of a "sterile" aspect to interact with! Harsh you may state but if one can only relate to a personal perception via another's will then exactly what is one?

Lets look at a concept!

Beauty.

What is this word? Tis it in the eye of the beholder or is it skin deep?
Many if not most say that this world is of a great beauty....... why? Yes it is IF your can ignore the lack of empathy that all creatures here have.

Remove 'man' from the image you have of this world, remove all of 'mans' so called achievements. Most would state that you only then have left the 'beauty' of nature, would you agree?
Have you looked at the 'nature' of this Earth, this Gaia, this Sophia, this TERRA.

War on Terra (sorry terror) thats a laugh a minute. Nothing as I see is going wrong in this drama.... it is a reel (sorry real) and the future is projected>

What was it shithead said.... prove that I exist and your not god....... no sorry again that was me.... something along the lines of "we are all actors on a stage, each of us playing many parts".

Am I depressed, no but if you guys keep hoarding the "fairy dust" I may become so!

And before any of you say, yes its a load of shit!


lake

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I would suggest we rename this thread "shitposter fly trap" but then it might not work.

[Doktor Howl]

I would suggest we rename this thread "shitposter fly trap" but then it might not work.

It's like you're cursed or something.  You been digging up pharaohs?

[Cain]

I imagine being among all those dead bodies is very depressing.  Good thing they only let smart people become archaeologists.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I would suggest we rename this thread "shitposter fly trap" but then it might not work.

It's kind of amazing.