That would point more to the underlying psychiatric conditions being the issue.
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Agree/Disagree. These conditions either could have been exacerbated by stopping SSRIs, or could have been brought on entirely by stopping SSRIs - Iām not sure if we can definitively tell which is the case though.
OR, they were always crazy and SSRIs just delayed the inevitable. I prefer to think this is not the case.
Human nature is incompatible with what social media cancer exposes us to. It breeds malcontents and foments irrational behavior
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IMO, the vast majority of mass shootings by loners can be attributed to social media. Before social media the loner was little more than a social loser without any social support.
Social media has given the loner an abundance of āfriendsā to support his inadequacies. Social media gives him validation for his victim status and his chance to be āheard.ā Some will add action to āpleaseā their multitude of supporters. Bear in mind they have physical contact with very few people to affirm their situation.
Add in how it gives a sense of entitlement and unrealistic expectations to the young. Itās a society being run on illusions and āmy truth.ā And those of us who believe there are facts and objective truth have to play along. We are removing concepts like winning and losing, success and failure, so is it any wonder that people have a hard time dealing with reality when they lose and donāt get the validation of a participation trophy?
If people knew some of what goes on in public schools, they would want to burn them all down. The sexual and gender identity issues, as well as CRT, that are being argued about are not the worst things going on. They are distractions from the worst problems.
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I would still guess theyāre overprescribed. I 100% believe theyāre exactly what certain people need, but not everyone. I was given a prescription after a 5 minute talk with my doctor. I donāt feel like thatās enough to decide if a person should take hormone-altering medication.
Iām not a doctor though, haha, so you can ignore all of my opinions regarding what real doctors should/shouldnāt do.
Iām actually unsure. I simply think two related factors for mass shootings are what I mentioned. I believe thereās a place for such medication, and my hunch is theyāre not equal and they might be over prescribed.
I donāt underestimate mental illness or the efficacy of psychiatric medication and psychological counseling. There are actually people out there who think thereās no such thing as mental illness (I recall that self-help goofball Brian Tracy said that) and that psychology and psychiatry are bunk. I donāt. I suffered from depression on and off from fourteen years old until my late 20ās. Iām 43 now and havenāt suffered at all from it since. I didnāt use medication, and Iāll say my therapist saved my life.
I will try to reply to others later this week as well as provided my list of ideas of causes of mass shootings in America. I actually considered making a separate thread entirely for these ideas.
But before I go Iāll provide what I believe should be at the top of the list, which Iāve stated over and over, and what is the cause of other social pathologies: the destruction of institutions that once kept anti-social behavior to a minimum, including the nuclear-family system. And they were deliberately destroyed.
That not one politician or talking head can give input on this besides āguns!ā is pathetic!
Thanks for the replies.
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Youāre a teacher, yes ? Fill us in
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Politicians are nothing more than pandering scum preying on emotionally vulnerable people
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Kids arenāt being taught anything. Everything is dumbed down. You have schools where the lowest grade a kid can get is a 50. The kid does nothing, he gets a 50, not a 0. Academic rigor is nonexistent. Parents are upset that their kids are exposed to weird gender theories, and Iām not saying they shouldnāt be, but the real issue is that their kids are not being prepared for the real world.
And Iām getting out of teaching because kids and parents have become douchebags, administrators are weak, the pay is not worth it and Iām overqualified. There is a teacher shortage because many teachers are leaving the profession and not enough people want to become teachers. The number one reason is student behavior and the sense that you are not respected by anyone, from administration to parents. But the kids feel good about themselves so itās all good.
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Jesusā¦ Sounds exactly like police work. Scary parallel there. 2 vital institutions being destroyed by whack job rejects
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Thatās the goal of collectivists and Marxists.
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Critical Theory and all of its branches, since about a 100 years ago, has alwaysbeen about ācritiquingāāin actuality, dehumanizingāpro-social, normal people and institutions. I donāt believe itās a distraction, but an actual conspiracy.
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No wonder its fed to gullible smooth brained college kids
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Focusing on the racial aspect is the distraction.
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If a people or person is dehumanized because of race, they better take that seriously, not just as some distraction tactic. The people doing the the dehumanizing are not joking and the implications are dangerous. It might seem harmless because in some cases only words and imagery are being used, but that is why it is so insidious. And the aggressors are only using words in some cases because theyāre not (yet) in positions to do more.
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It distracts because race is the easy and obvious argument to have. It will be a never ending youāre racist, no youāre the racist back and forth. What about white kidsā feelings? What about black kidsā feelings? No one even bothers to define what racism even means.
So even if you end up removing these racial elements, youāll still be left with the Marxist elements which is the real goal. While people are arguing about race and American history and how to address it in classrooms, Western culture/civilization is being erased via curriculum and indoctrination.
Take the supposed African proverb, it takes a village. It sounds nice but Iāve never liked it and thought it was a dehumanizing and commie way of thinking. Itās not even African in origin but labeling it as such makes a criticism of it off limits.
That proverb diminishes the role of parents in a childās life. The village is more important to children than their own parents. And if we think of the village as the government, it not only creates a sense of dependence on others but a sense of entitlement as itās the villageās or governmentās obligation to raise children.
In schools, this it takes a village ideology is something that is being instilled in students. Curriculum is supporting the equality, equity, justice movement.
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Iām trying to follow your reasoning, for real.
Although someone is the one not demonizing another, he doesnāt choose who demonizes him! An analogy can be made for someone who doesnāt want to fight. It might go like this:
āThrow your hands up!ā
āButā¦ butā¦ I donāt have a problem with you. I donāt want to fight. Iām a peaceful guy.ā
āTough luck pal!ā (Delivers knockout punch.)
If someone dehumanizes me or my children it definitely is distracting me from other matters but it is nevertheless serious. It doesnāt matter if I have the same malicious mentality as those victimizing me or if I think theyāre stupid or not.
Iām not saying the racial aspect of CRT is irrelevant. What Iām saying is that itās an argument that will just go back and forth while other dangerous aspects of what is essentially marxism are allowed to flourish. If people went after those aspects they would avoid arguing over race as the issue would not be about race thus no back and forth about whoās a racist.
For example, if people focused on how CRT is anti family (vs anti white) it becomes a universal message that all races could agree on. If people saw how CRT, and modern approaches to education, are creating students who know less and are less able to cope with reality, then we could rid education of these bad ideas rooted in marxism and collectivism. Schools are working hard to push a collaborative approach to learning among students. Maybe this creates people who are ready to work as part of a team but does it create leaders? Does it create āgreatā men and women?
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This was mentioned in Yuri Bezmenovās interview a while back - and I see no flaws with this line of argument.