what's with the wiggle

Have often loved your stuff, but this is just inaccurate, many people with depression actually have conditions and situations that even if they do not seem like a big deal are causing them, and how big your problems are compared to someone else does not matter, you live your experience and your challenges if they strain you will affect you.

It is good to make a effort to get better, but the way this message goes is pretty much the opposite of what I have seen therapists recommend to actually help people with things like depression.

Ah, Foamy being a dispensary of harsh truths to the equally resistant wall of disbelief that is Germaine. Solid work!

Bruh I've had this speech given to me so many times...

actually positive people can be just as ungrateful about life. Not even realising their privilaged place in the world. The difference is they demonstrate anger at tiny things rather then self loathing. e.g "erugh the wifi is out, erugh im stuck in traffic"

Ok I get it, u get people like similar to the goth girl.

But the whole "they complain about their mental health for attention" are a minority of people in my experience.

It just feels like the moanings of a boomer conservative with no understanding of WHY people can get depressed in the modern world.

Some consider the modern world to be quite distopian actually. You can certainly get that vibe if you are single, work a shit 9-5 day job and use Tinder to find dates. You live in your little box, your little unhealthy hamster cage. Faced with crippling existentialism day in day out.

Apprently tribes are some of the happiest groups of people on the planet, no rates of depression. WHY? They can face illness, disease, no modern medicine. Yet they are happier.

"oh well they are more grateful"

No that is utterly wrong. Their world is COMPLETELY different to ours.

The modern world is making everyone sick. wether it is to do with porn, internet, phones, social media, lack of social communication in person, social events, whatever i don't know.

But it is significant. Do we have control? well yes we do, but look how obese everyone is. The high rate of obesity. There is your awnser as to how much "control" people really have over themselves. And who is responsible for that? Them or something external? well both actually. Look at the MASSIVE food industries puting sugar in literally fucking everything. Food coperations paying of scientists, politicans, this is well documented. We are being posiened. Even savoury food has sugar in it. The only way i can avoid this shit is to eat fruit and vegetables and not buy any packed food with more then a few ingredients in it.

You can take personal responsibility, as the conservative will always preach.
But taking personal responsibility also means taking resonsibility to critizise the world around you and its flaws, things that can be improved upon. lobbying ideals to benefit everyone ect ect ect.

The whole Peterson "clean your room before you try to organize the world", he makes a good point.

But then as Zizek pointed out

"how can you expect a North Korean to clean his room before criticizing the world?"

Maybe i have digressed to much, idk.

I guess my point is. The modern world and the humans in it, have problems, serious ones at that.
You will sometimes get the privilaged moron who has literally no serious problems and yet complains.

But again, i don't see them often.

What you will see is simpletons with absolutely no clue of whats going on, who still don't "appreciate" how surposedly good they got things. Still are "ungrateful" just aren't singing on hill tops about it. And don't forget that WE are literally fucking the planet sideways. Even if you don't believe in climate change, did you forget about pollution? Over fishing?

There are things being done about this, to prevent all these things.

But. only. Because. People. COMPLAINED.

idk, idk. Theres my 2 cents worth.

Next time you get pissy over a blue dyed haired goth girl protesting about pollution because the very air she breathes is toxic causing her asthma.
just remember the reason you even have a functioning toilet / underground sewer system is because people COMPLAINED.

yep.