111 - Crystalised

http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=4856

I've noticed that it's actually becoming really common for people to experience depression. I think I read somewhere that it's one in five. I don't know. Maybe a few years ago, but I think it's more like two in seven or something. Maybe one in five currently experience depression. Maybe 1/5 have experienced depression up to the age of 10, 2/5 up to the age of 20, 3/5 up to the age of 40, and 4/5 after that.

Can anyone go through life without it? I don't know. Like, real depression, not like "oh fuck I missed the train and the next one is in an hour and now I'm late for work why t-t". I think I'll define "real" depression as:

Wanting to either die, be dead, or not have been born at all for more than two weeks

Lets say 5/5 after the age of 60, not including outliers.


So is there something very very wrong with the world if this is becoming more common? fuck aids, fuck hunger and poverty (actually i take that all back), what about this? this is the next epidemic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X21mJh6j9i4
watch that vid if you want a laugh, 2:46

extract from 
Subject: An open letter to Lee Kuan Yew / Ex Senior Minister of Singapore

No one can or has been able to rival you in terms of your (mostly) rational and well-thought through, sound policies. Especially in terms of our economic policies. You’re so darn good with your cost-benefit analyses, your economic forecasts, your financial planning. Every policy you rolled out is justified using very rational arguments that the opposition and the public find hard to counter argue. You are top-notch, because you have a very brainy team, all with impeccable qualifications from world renowned universities. Unfortunately, this made you assume that only you have the brains and everyone else is just an *censored**censored**censored**censored**censored* w! ho needs only to listen and obey. The game of politics cannot ! be playe d by cold l! ogic alone. And it certainly can’t be won by treating your voters as morons.

An example of this would be the issue of bringing in the IRs. Yes, your cold, rational argument makes very good economic reasons for having casinos in Singapore. No one can argue against that. But not everything can or should be measured by dollars and cents or by the amount of GDP it will generate for Sg. We’re no longer the generation in the 1960s that constantly had to worry about money or material matters. We’ve moved up the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In fact, most Singaporeans work ridiculously long hours, are constantly too stressed to even go on dates or have sex (hence the low marriage and fertility rate) that we’re all very very disillusioned with the constant drive for wealth. Increasingly, we want to slow down, have time to smell the flowers and be with our families. And having casinos that will bring in more crime (organised ones too), encourage more addictive behavio! ur and increase broken families will not sit well with a population who now values quality of life rather than personal wealth. Yet, you bull-dosed these concerns and won yet again with your cold, rational, economic arguments because there wasn’t enough opposition in the parliament to stop you.

While people may buy into the cold logic of your policies now, your lack of empathy and human touch are slowly alienating voters. The breaking point may not be now, but you can be sure that the disconnection is getting wider by the day. It’s a time-bomb that will go off at some point.

http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=4752

why do we work so hard? why does brendan work so hard, and why are people like him? maybe not so much in australia, but what about singapore?

maybe we can go without the little bit of extra production in the economy. we can go without this new piece of technology. we can just all find a bit of time to sit back and enjoy life. we aren't machines. screw machines, they can work 24/7 for all i care. but if our entire life is just work so we can work so we can work so we can work so we can die and pass on money to our descendants, what's the point of living in the first place? sure, everyone lives "comfortable lives", but that doesn't matter when everyone wants to die.


i can think of a fix. people who don't work should work. people who work too hard should work regularly. people who can't work have to die.

of course we can't do that though, because we're human. so yeah, the best thing for us to do at this moment is to just let it happen and watch the world descend into anger and sorrow. who cares anyway, they'll have hovercars and !@#$. i can't wait