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"Modern life, more depressing than at any point in past 100 years, world expert says."

Click the hyperlink for the article below:

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/modern-life-more-depressing-today-100-years-expert-2590199

What about the Great Depression? Of course, that'll happen again any second now.

Talking about how depressing the world is just makes me more depressed, so what can be done about it? I guess nothing. You can't save the world, so you can't make me less depressed.

There probably needs to be a kind of morality police to govern how people not abuse their power and f**k up the economy, sometimes you can't get s**t done without just getting rid of the problem by force, A.I can help with the process.

I assume this "expert" wasn't an African American or a colonial subject of a European empire?

The sheer eurocentric arrogance is quite something to behold

Probably not a woman, either.

There's really no need to bring identity politics into everything/every thread.

The article makes some good scientific points. I liked the one about artificial lighting, as disruptions to circadian rhythm do cause mood disorders in some people and this is universal across different ethnicities or *gasp* the different sexes.

Considering that people live in homes now which have electricity in the current day, and the use of technology that requires looking into a screen of light is ubiquitous, that alone is a good point.

It’s not really about “identity politics.” If you weren’t a white male in the fifties, life was significantly more depressing then than it is now. It’s just reality.

You can’t make come to such a generalized conclusion based on that amount of evidence. This topic is much more complex than that no matter what a “world expert” says.

The article is clickbaity.

The article doesn't approach the topic of ethnicity or which sex a person is.

The content includes (in reference to Philip Gold of the NIH):

"But he believes that everyday conditions are more likely to lead to depression now than in the past.

These take many forms and include a rise in stimuli of all kinds, such as information overload, artificial light, mobile phones, together with increasingly intense social interactions – largely as a result of new technology, for example, angry Twitter exchanges and physical overcrowding."

The article to me strikes me as something which criticises modern life, specifically in relation to technology.

I don't think it was trying to be everything and to include the benefits of being a white male in the 1950's, or any other social commentary related to that.

The title to the article is clickbaity and not true in every respect or for all people.

“Modern life is more depressing than at any point in past 100 years, world expert says” That’s simply not true for everyone. I’m sure that I would’ve been more depressed as a woman in the fifties.

Perhaps the title should’ve been: “Certain things that may make modern life more depressing for certain people.”

Of course, such a title probably would attract fewer readers.