There's also the premise of global superpowers locked into a theater of permanent economic conflict and the implicit balance of power perpetually threatening to break open and destabilize into massive full-spectrum conflict.
Given the state of nature that exists between large industrialized nations, each in incentivized to foment dysfunction in their rivals to slow them down economically. The more infighting in any given country, the more headaches present among citizens, the slower and more reluctant their economy becomes.
There's a slow, glacial, permanent grind that never goes away, because the world at large is trying to make you call in sick to work, so that they can gain some breathing room, and pump up their own economy.
Meanwhile, uncompetitive personality flaws get classified as mental illness, so that there's medical justification to ply you with productivity drugs. Take prescribed speed to perform for the economy. Take mood stabilizers so you don't snap at your co-workers. Take anti-anxiety meds for your impostor syndrome, and stop worrying about whether everyone hates you. They're all just cranky from the speed and psychological operations of global superpowers trying to slow us down.
I appreciate the concise description of your worldview, but what of it? People still have to survive, and inescapable despair is really not a good tool for that.
It's one thing to state a premise, but they're usually expected to be accompanied by conclusions.
I can only offer such views within the context of this particular article, to make the point that not all those wallowing in misery should dwell on instrospection, when there is a tidal force of nature beyond the individual drenching a broader collective in misery, for reasons beyond most anyone's control.
Even if you win the war with yourself, you'll still have an entire world to confont, but at least most of the problem wasn't even you to begin with. So at least there's that?
It isn't so much psyops as it is the consequence of the very specific brand of Asian capitalism that dominates the world today. One need only look to South Korea or Japan in order to realize that the United States is on the very same trajectory.
its interesting the push/pull that goes on with PED.
many students are taking adderall to ace exams/boards/bar/standardized tests, and athletes are taking steroids/HGH/etc. Its largely considered academic fraud / cheating, but also largely unpoliced.
sometimes i feel the world is becoming like the movie/series limitless. those that you see are succeeding / influential are juiced up.
I've never heard anyone call adderall academic fraud. It's not magic and taking stimulants and pulling all night study sessions is a hallowed academic tradition. It matters less if that stimulant is coffee or if it's adderall.
Given the state of nature that exists between large industrialized nations, each in incentivized to foment dysfunction in their rivals to slow them down economically. The more infighting in any given country, the more headaches present among citizens, the slower and more reluctant their economy becomes.
There's a slow, glacial, permanent grind that never goes away, because the world at large is trying to make you call in sick to work, so that they can gain some breathing room, and pump up their own economy.
Meanwhile, uncompetitive personality flaws get classified as mental illness, so that there's medical justification to ply you with productivity drugs. Take prescribed speed to perform for the economy. Take mood stabilizers so you don't snap at your co-workers. Take anti-anxiety meds for your impostor syndrome, and stop worrying about whether everyone hates you. They're all just cranky from the speed and psychological operations of global superpowers trying to slow us down.