Are there material roots to the widespread feeling of isolation, ennui...

Are there material roots to the widespread feeling of isolation, ennui, hopelessness and lack of purpose that many of us feel?

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Capitalism

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the internet, when I was a kid you could walk outside and make friends. The only time I see kids outside now is coming back from school. It's not longer necessary to be social except at work.

Entfremdung

how naive

Suicide rates are statistically lower when people have a sense of community. Capitalism and its emphasis on the individual above all else is pretty much the leading cause of mental health issues.

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Industrialtechnological Society.

Suicide is a pretty good indicator people were suffering enough to need the best escape solution possible.

it is the opposite, people are suffering because they are forced to follow whatever community laws are enforced on the individual

Any evidence for this? Sounds like a crackpot theory.

yes it is called "The Ego and it's Own" by Max Stirner

What was his p-value for the correlation between suffering and how much they were forced to follow whatever community laws are enforced on the individual?

Didn't they teach you in school that analytic philosophy is fucking trash kiddo?

Sorry I must have missed that class.

See, this is why you shouldn't miss classes kids

The world has been steadily becoming a more tolerant place with people more willing to contribute to charities. Religious fundamentalism has been on the downswing for some time and the remaining first world religious are adopting more of the "help thy neighbour" attitude.

Dispite this, awful shit keeps happening, your dollar buys less for your labour than it did six months ago, unemployment has been ever increasing, and conflict beyond our borders (perhaps in your own) ceases to end.

Lack of God in your hearts.

Pretty much what
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Ennui and lack of purpose only come about when the material needs are already satisfied.

yeah technology

ie. a crackpot theory

People are willing to contribute to charities because they are not offered any other meaningful participation of remedies of what the charities claim to be fixing.

Also charity solves nothing except soothing one's consciousness.


That sounds like a shortcut. But it works for many people. In the thread showing Plekhanov's criticism of Stirner, there is also written out his criticism of Monotheistic religions.

God is a human concept. You can make a further generalization that also other sentient lifeforms can create god for themselves.

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The way capitalism causes us to regard ourselves and others are mere tools, makes everyone either our lord or competitor, leaves us with little time for our social relations, has no purpose beyond the profit of the rich, and constantly tries to persuade you that ownership and consumption equal happiness.

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Ikr, some retards even created a whole republic after them

It was called the USSR I belive

Capitalism.

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Incredibly spooked

Read this comrade:
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-bloom-theory

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Capitalist alienation, the destruction of communitarian/traditional societies, and the perceived failure and discrediting of the universal socialist projects of the 20th century.

People are aware of the shit we're in, can see the impending economic/social/ecological destruction ahead, and aren't allowed to see a way out.