At this point, everyone knows I'm hugely into books.
It's just so depressing how even book people are about nothing more than intentionally creating this self-perpetuating "community" of anxiety.
You can't go to any freaking book-related online space without people asking for permission to not finish a book. "Is it okay to DNF?????"
Same with doing shit to your own books. Do not write into them, do not open them too much or the spine will crack. Get a panic attack because two fucking photons touched the book and how it will be DAMAGED.
"I am having a panic attack because maybe I didn't get all the references in this book."
The same with every hobby. Cooking? You are not environmentally friendly enough, you are not authentic enough, this is wrong, that is wrong.
Hell, I am kiiinda thinking about a Switch, I looked at Animal Crossing and people are freaking the fuck out at others for not playing the game "right". Others are having depression because their islands are not aesthetic enough.
How did the internet turn everyone so fucking neurotic over the things we were supposed to do as FUN? And I am not even just talking about SJW things, but every community is about "doing it the right way" even though it doesn't matter and there doesn't exist a right way?
It's to the point now where if I see a millennial having one of their trademark panic attacks, that I try to egg them on into a breakdown. At this point I consider "anxiety" to be every bit as fake as ADD.
I want it to be real. We're overdue for a culling of the weak.
As fucked as millennials are, they're not so bad that you can't get away with thinking that, at least for now. They're functional enough that you can still write off their dysfunctions as just millennials being shit.
You have until the lockdown kids start hitting their late teens, at least. Every dysfunction the millennials have, they're gonna have 10x worse, and there won't be anything left to point to but generations of rotting culture, and how it's ruined child-rearing. It's gonna be very real.
Gen Z is worse than Millennials in mental illnesses and neuroses and Gen Alpha (the iPad generation) is going to be even more messed up than them. Poor parenting skills by Gen Xers and Millennials combined with the overexposure to technology has ruined these kids. Ultimately, this proves Dr. Kaczynski was right yet again.
Try to get them to define anxiety, in their own words, sometimes. You'll find they have no idea what it is, and generally just describe the basic troubles of being alive.
ADD is real, probably caused by vaccines and many other modern things the health industry pushes on people. Probably also a side effect of ritalin being pushed on young kids.
I think we will learn that a lot of this insanity was no different than mad hatters being exposed to mercury. Except, the society back then at least knew they were mad and there were not as many of them. Now the mad "nuerodivergent" are in such numbers and with access to each other that they have formed a culture out of their madness.
I also do not doubt that this was engineered. Whether for a more controllable population or just for big pharma to be able to sell meth to kids and adults just so they could function like a normal human.
I have a similar view about 'trauma'.