Lashing Out

In June -of this year- 11% of people in the United States seriously contemplated suicide. 40% struggle with mental health and/or drug abuse. We are a broken country. Why are politics so radical? Why is there so much hate? ...because "damaged people, damage people." We have not given the attention and resources we should have to support actual people...to nurture curiosity and mental health...to keep them healthy and energetic...to inspire and give them hope...we have succumbed to the religion of self-interest, short-term gain, and sociopathy...and this is the result. Why do people latch onto crazy conspiracies and tribal hate...because they don't know why they're living...they haven't been shown the greater values that they should aspire to...they haven't been given any opportunities to make them feel as though they've progressed. Viruses are detrimental, Economic Depressions are detrimental...but a population who doesn't feel like anyone cares about them, and who don't care about anyone else...is TERMINAL. If we are not completely in this situation, we are dangerously close...and must try with all our might to course correct.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm