What is the worst thing killing society mentally right now?
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  • cost of living

  • politicians and greed

  • The 1.1 % sitting on 47 % of the worlds ressources

  • loneliness

  • Humans being separated from nature

  • income inequality

  • propaganda

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  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There’s a lot going on here, but the top comment is “social media.” Granted social media sucks, but really? The worst thing about our current society is a handful of websites? Bigotry, inequality, environmental destruction, these are all secondary to people being mean to you on the internet?

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      me getting downvoted is a lot like slash and burn agriculture in the amazon river basin

    • Changeling [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      In my experience, when you rely solely on a single coping strategy to process and handle your emotions, it becomes hard to tell the difference between you personally having a problem and that coping strategy being flawed. So people will come to resent their one coping strategy for becoming less effective over time and extrapolate that across the entire population because it’s easier than recognizing that they lack basic coping skills. Because the reasons for an adult lacking basic coping skills are generally not pretty and can be difficult to accept, especially as the person who lacks coping skills.

      TLDR people’s lives suck, they use social media as their main coping strategy, and then when the hedonistic treadmill catches up with them, they blame social media instead of finding a more diverse set of strategies

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I think many of them unironically think that if social media were "solved", we could simply fix all of the issues you mentioned.

    • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      cant blame them, unfortunately i think the proportion of people who view the current mental health crisis as a result of or largely contingent on social media are disturbingly high

      • EngineerGaming [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It always reeks of someone who never had an interest in anything unusual in their entire life. Excuse me for the 4-chanism, but you have to be such a normie to think that the technology that allowed millions of people to connect to those with shared interests is also purely mentally harmful.

        To be clear, it is also mentally harmful.