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A New Angle on Depression in America

As everyone knows depression is becoming a more widespread problem throughout the western world, and if you read past the first two paragraphs I promise i'm not going where you expect with all this.

People and doctors alike come up with many different explanations for why they believe everyone is so depressed these days, and every situation is unique, but, it seems like depression is a so called 'illness' unique to western civilization.

One of the biggest attributes of depression is commonly thought to be misandry/misogyny that has divided the traditional household over the last thirty years. But, there are numerous factors behind this. One of the biggest is marketing sex. Both sides constantly blame the other saying things like "Men exploit women for profit and pleasure" or "Women abuse their power with sexual manipulation".

While it is true that men do feed off the exploitation off women, women also submit to monetizing their bodies when no one is forced to. And then both sides lose.

Women feel inadequate for not living up to the standard of beauty they idealize, comparing themselves to "Production" quality sex symbols. Men feel inadequate for being alone or having sub par sex lives when women's exposed bodies are plastered all over everything.

I can attest to this because honestly if i'm not getting any on a regular basis I start to feel like shit about myself.

I learned once, in a college biology class, that a population of any species will continue to expand until it has reached its optimal maximum size, at which point it will begin to even out with minor fluctuations...

...which is what is happening in the west. Birth rates are falling. young people are getting married much later, if at all. It is odd to think that things like "feminism" and "mgtow" are human's way of leveling off the population since we have become fully civilized and developed, but this is what seems to be the case. No matter how depressing it may be, it is a natural biological function of living things.

The same biology teacher who stated this point also said that women's rights are a result of more civilized nations, and that women should be empowered abroad in nations where they have little to no rights.

What she forgot to mention is that, in less developed nations, like those in the middle east, if things like "feminism" or "mgtow" existed on a mass scale where the sexes were refusing to actually have sex with eachother, and splitting off to form new gender identities, their societies simply would not be able to sustain themselves.

The war torn nations of the middle east, africa, and south/central america can not afford the luxury of things like feminist protests and male secession, because if a person is not able to reproduce and fend for themselves, they simply die. But this is actually a far more natural way of life.

We in the west say we are "fighting" to carry on sometimes, but people groups like this literally must fight to survive, by either defending their farmlands, resisting oppressive regimes, or battling for natural resources. If women could just say no whenever they didn't feel like having sex as a common practice, entire societies would dwindle away.

... but I'm sure that the men of these countries are not concerned with having sex as much as possible when they know that it will most likely result with more mouths to feed....

Which brings me back to my original point; depression. We mope around our desk jobs and our colleges feeling down about something and isolating ourselves from others, complaining that "its not my fault im depressed, I have a disease." I was diagnosed with depression myself and I refuse to hear things like this from anyone, even if they are doctors.

Maybe being depressed is the result of lacking the visceral, primal feeling of overpowering a living creature to feed oneself, or surviving a violent struggle against another person when there is not enough bread to feed everyone; seeing the determination in their eyes knowing they will not think twice about killing you.

If these were things I had to worry about on a daily basis, I would not have time to be sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

Maybe in more civilized nations, having sex is the only feeling anywhere close to this that can make us feel alive in this way, and for some reason we aren't having it, when contraception is cheap as ever.

What do you think?

A New Angle on Depression in America

A New Angle on Depression in America
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