What happens to a society when the number of crazy people surpasses the number of normal people? Unfortunately, I think that we aren’t too far away from finding out. A survey that was conducted late last year discovered that 90 percent of Americans believe that we are experiencing a mental health crisis right now. Tens of millions of Americans are currently taking pills for their mental or emotional health, and the number of Americans that are killing themselves just keeps going higher and higher with each passing year. But numbers certainly aren’t necessary to prove that the level of crazy in our society has reached heights never seen before. All you have to do to prove that our society is descending into an abyss of insanity is to go out into the streets.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 6 Mar 2024
I'm sure there's plenty of data among those who have surveyed isolate tribes around the world, and studied their superstitions.
Where I am things aren't very crazy in most ways. We have pot-luck dinners. It's peaceful. At night there's no traffic. People laugh at masks.
In other ways it is crazy. Go to a random church and people have their hands in the air, looking out the sides of their eyes to see whether others are perceiving them as devout enough. People getting their hair DYED with chemicals for unknown reasons, smearing colors on their faces in denial of the natural aging process, etc.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 8 Mar 2024
I hate to be cold, but it sounds like this will sorta solve itself...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Mar 2024
There's nothing particularly special about 50-50 that would make it a tipping point, but there is some threshold for how much crazy our society can handle.
It's interesting that you say to just go out in the street. When I do that, it's still pretty normal. I think that emphasizes the importance of voting with your feet.
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