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The cruelties we have inflicted on children under Covid-19 are unethical and immoral, we’re devastating a whole generation
By Eva Bartlett Source: In Gaza A year of lockdowns, mask-wearing, isolation and depriving youngsters from seeing friends and grandparents has caused a surge in kids committing suicide, self-harming and suffering other mental health issues. It needs to end. Scrolling … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Health, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged addiction, Child Development, Covid-19, depression, Isolation, lockdown, Mental Health, Pandemic, psychology, Public Health, Sociology, suicidal ideation, suicide
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‘Deaths of despair’ soaring among Gen Z & millennials: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
By Helen Buyniski Source: RT.com Young Americans are killing themselves in record numbers, the victims of a confluence of economic and sociological factors that have singled them out – even above a nationwide surge in so-called “deaths of despair.” Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged addiction, Alcohol, America, Baby Boomers, culture, deaths of despair., depression, drugs, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Generation Z, Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Labor, military spending, millennials, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, recession, Social Media, society, Sociology, Student Debt, Student Loans, suicide, The American Dream, unemployment, war, Work
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Slow suicide and the abandonment of the world
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Alienation, Conformity, Consumerism, culture, Death, depression, Experience, fear, Life, Philosophy, psychology, Rebellion, Slow Suicide, society, Sociology, suicide
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Suicide? American Society is Murdering Us
By Ted Rall Source: CounterPunch They say that 10 million Americans seriously consider committing suicide every year. In 1984, when I was 20, I was one of them. Most people who kill themselves feel hopeless. They are miserable and distraught … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged culture, depression, Economics, healthcare, Illness, Isolation, Loneliness, Mental Illness, Poverty, society, Stress, suicide, technology, unemployment, Work
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Wasted lives: The worldwide tragedy of youth suicide
Principles of goodness together with the golden seed of social justice – sharing – need to be the guiding ideals of a radically redesigned socio-economic paradigm. By Graham Peebles Source: Nation of Change The pressures of modern life are colossal; for … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, media, Psychology, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Anxiety, Commodification, Consumerism, culture, depression, despair, Economics, Education, Hope, media, Mental Health, Poverty, Public Health, Social Media, society, suicide, unemployment
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The Other Dieoffs
By Chad Hill Source: The Hipcrime Vocab Last week I realized that there were a few subtleties left out of my (rather depressing) topic. I argued that America was doing more than just throwing its working class under the bus; … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged America, Die Off, Filed State, Mass Shootings, Millenials, Population, Poverty, Social Decay, suicide, terrorism, TV News, United States, Wealth Disparity
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The Dying Americans
By Chad Hill Source: The Hipcrime Vocab I’ve often used the term “the final solution for the working class,” in reference to the current American policy towards its vast intercoastal peasantry who, for reasons of circumstance or inclination, do not … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged America, American Dream, Corporate Globalization, Dieoff, Dystopia, Economics, Education, greed, Health Care, Middle Class, Neoliberalism, Peak Oil, Poverty, society, suicide, technology, Working Class
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Saturday Matinee: The Internet’s Own Boy
Editor’s Note: Tomorrow marks the birthday of Aaron Swartz. Had the government not driven him to an early death he would have been 29. Synopsis by TakePart.com The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil liberties, culture, Film, internet freedom, media, Saturday Matinee, society, State Crime, Technology, Video
Tagged Aaron Swartz, activism, CFAA, Cory Doctorow, Documentary, hacktivism, Internet, jstor, Larry Lessig, MIT, suicide, Tim Berners-Lee
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