"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Medicating The Yearning For Autonomy
The common approach to sadness and depression is to treat it as an ‘illness’ – something not only undesirable but also not ‘normal’ according to the culture of the incumbent paradigm. Clearly, with the ubiquity of material ‘goods’ available to most people, one is expected to be happy with such things and anything less than contentment is the sign of a mental ‘illness’.
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