The War to End all Wars was WWI, hence why the title is generally referred to ironically.Depression isn't exactly useful but it's reasonable considering the facts, if you honestly care about the world and other people then just the sheer nature of humanity is enough to be monumentally downsome. The main reason the western world is so depressed and sick of itself when the rest of the world is starving, dying, under genocidal attacks is because we have the knowledge, we know about it without having felt it. To the temperament of someone undergoing war or starvation it's much more simple: it's here, try to survive. They care about keeping themselves alive, their thoughts and morality, ideals and ambitions are all based on whatever situation they are in. That happens all over the world, people have to think about themselves.
The ones who never have it hard and never really have to think about themselves, they are the ones which end up seeing and worrying about everyone's troubles. Not true of everyone in that position of course, some are just greedy bastards who naturally think about themselves, but for a lot of other people it is just paralysing to have to worry about all the fates of all people equally, and given that they are all interdependant the act of trying to help one group will ultimately destroy another.
That's why people are depressed, although I put it more down to the fact that the way life is marketed these days is fucking boring. If the world had random duels and crimefighting vigilantism I'm sure fewer people would be clinically depressed.
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Mon 4 Aug 2008, 3:56,
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The ones who never have it hard and never really have to think about themselves, they are the ones which end up seeing and worrying about everyone's troubles. Not true of everyone in that position of course, some are just greedy bastards who naturally think about themselves, but for a lot of other people it is just paralysing to have to worry about all the fates of all people equally, and given that they are all interdependant the act of trying to help one group will ultimately destroy another.
That's why people are depressed, although I put it more down to the fact that the way life is marketed these days is fucking boring. If the world had random duels and crimefighting vigilantism I'm sure fewer people would be clinically depressed.
To Be Continued.Im going bed now to think up a plan for a new world order.
To completely fuck up an analogy:
The eggs are already broken, lets make a fucking omlette.
(To completely fuck up an analogy:
The eggs are already broken, lets make a fucking omlette.
P3L3 is not my real name.,
Mon 4 Aug 2008, 4:02,
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