Good points. There are still plenty of young people who manage to be happy, but they do seem to be swimming against a rather strong cultural stream.

They are are being told that the fact their lives are miserable is not their fault. They are being taught that the only escapes are to fall into the mindless hedonism of drugs and sex, and that the only ways their lives can be made better is to cede all their agency to the government so that it can cocoon them in entitlements that they do not deserve and are told they cannot earn. They are led to believe that fairness doesn’t mean equalizing the playing field, but equalizing the score, which is impossible, so they succumb to despair.

It is relentlessly pounded into their heads that success is a zero-sum game, and that all the successful people got that way by taking it away from them. They are not offered the solace of religion, which teaches us that suffering is not the worst thing that happen to a person… in the twisted worldview they are being force-fed, suffering is the worst thing that can happen, and that in comparison, death is preferable.

They are subjected to “social justice” which is completely arbitrary, capricious and vindictive. You can’t avoid its sins (which change from week to week) and cannot avoid its punishments, unless you join the mob and do unto others before they can do unto you, and that still won’t stop the mob from devouring you when they stop to catch a breath from immolating others.

So it’s no surprise that young people are depressed. Everything that makes life worth living, they believe, has been taken from them, or impossible to achieve. They are raised on a steady diet of grievances and resentfulness. They are being held to a moral code that constantly shifts and is entirely unpredictable. They are told to believe certain people must have complete power to be their only hope as saviors and yet those people will turn on them at the drop of a hat. The Cultural Marxism that has spread so thoroughly into our culture is creating the perfect dystopia (it has even deeply infected the Catholic Church, which has always been a bulwark against the evils of modernism), where everyone is miserable and hopeless despite living in the richest, most successful society in the world.

This what young people are facing as they try to grow up in a society which offers many opportunities for people smart enough to recognize them, but is also infected with excessive complexity and bureaucracy, and anyone who buys into these lies, even a little, will undoubtedly be miserable.

In FPS gamer terms, Earth is full of Fking Kid pfking PVP SPAWN CAMPERS.

Likewise, there is no read of the contemporary context that tells us Americans are about to fall upon one another, except on social media & in blog-comments. Among our 100s of millions, yes, there are a few who fall off the rails, and that’s unfortunate. But there isn’t a pattern of evidence to suggest any large-scale domestic armed conflict in the USA.

There is a severe ignorance and mistaken impression about CW1 in the US. For example, the idea that it started with “large scale domestic armed conflict” is wrong. The CW1 activated in 1861, but was preceded by Lincoln’s election, but even that was preceded by the Utah War of 1857, Kansas Missouri border war between slavers and non slaver communities full of ethnic cleansing and Rwanda style mass rape, Missouri Extermination Order, and mob contracted lynchings of abolitionist speakers by Northern and Southern Demoncrats.

Once a person realizes the preceding signals of civil war 1, they can see the ambushes of whites and blacks and internal philosophical dissent preceding civil war 2. But that’s why yall were educated in American history by the indoctrination centers. To keep you from realizing what actually happened before 1860.

The earliest lynchings of abolitionist speakers in the NORTH, were circa 1830 via my primary sources. That’s a pretty long generation before the actual shots were fired. Because it takes that long to condition a new generation to Hate the Enemy.

Humans are surprisingly resilient, but they do take psychological damage from dying in games. They sometimes log off and never come back, after a particularly crushing defeat. Rage Quit!

Well, given that they are contracted to life until death on Earth, some people can’t take it any more and decide to void their contract before it is finished. They will not be rewarded with heaven nor punished with hell, as in the various religious dogmas.

Rather, their actions will plague them until the end of eternity and they create their own hell or reward as a result of this. The experience in the game is transferred to the player. The experience of whatever life you had on life is transferred to the eternal spirit after death of avatar. This upload is unavoidable.

That’s why suicide is almost pointless. You cannot escape the pain, not entirely.

OK. 90% Look at the numbers.

OK, Maybe it will be localized.

This will all be sorted out after CW2.

The problem here is the same one we saw with the claim that Trump and then his Admin bear comparison with personalities, political parties and events that arose in Central Europe during the 1930s. What was going on in Europe throughout the first half of the 20th C drove developments there … and the United States today is not subject to anything resembling the factors & forces that were at work in Europe, then.

Similarly, the American Civil War took place in its own time, for its own reasons. Several people over the last 150 years have taken an interest in how that came about, what factors & forces were at work. It was even more-different from today, than Europe leading up to WWII.

Donald Trump shows no signs of sprouting a goofy mustache, and his supporters are not crafting special armbands. Hats maybe, but no goose-stepping.

Likewise, there is no read of the contemporary context that tells us Americans are about to fall upon one another, except on social media & in blog-comments. Among our 100s of millions, yes, there are a few who fall off the rails, and that’s unfortunate. But there isn’t a pattern of evidence to suggest any large-scale domestic armed conflict in the USA.

We may as well entertain the discussion of rule-of-thumb rods, with which to discipline our wives.

just compare leave it to beaver or denis the menace to todays mentally screwed up fair…

but at least its not the problem for us guys anymore
we are evil, oppressors, and so on….

excuse me… MGTOW calls…

wait till the pop drop hits them…
want to see a really confused face?
you know,
like everyone found out being used by politics was better than loving family

I find there are four sorts of pacifists:

1. Otherworldly sorts who withdraw from society and are ready to die. (Amish, Mennonite, Bruderhof).

2. A pacifism that is like what G.K. Chesterton called ‘the religion of the household gods’. It’s an heirloom for people in anabaptist confessions which have gone suburban (as have Quakers and Dunkers, for the most part). To the extent these people have any political engagement it takes two varieties: (1) pleasant but unserious, inasmuch as no one is thinking too hard about the relationship between ends and means or acts and consequences and (2) slides toward being cruel to the kind and kind to the cruel, because that’s easier. AFAICS, the former is modal among Dunkers, the latter among Quakers.

3. The pacifism of political recrimination. See Chris Hedges for an example. These people are insufferable and merit no respect. The entire red-haze left is like this. People of this variety have a particular hatred of Israel.

4. Libertarian goofballs. See Ron Paul, conceited fool.