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Rita Skeeter's avatar

Psychotropic drugs don't heal trauma, yet that is the most common intervention. In bygone days when people lived in groups, there was huge emphasis put on character building, it kept the tribe in harmony and intact. Today, a con man can easily move on to new unsuspecting individuals. So often predatory behaviour is rationalized under the slogan 'business is business' or 'It is just business.' It is so expensive to survive, that decency has gone by the wayside. The nuclear family is under massive pressure. Too many divorces erode the stability of life for children, the most important resource and antidote to trauma, 'love' takes a hit. We need to both compete and cooperate; the scales have tipped to competition only, that results in war, and large-scale human misery. Solutions?

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

COVID was yet another self-inflicted trauma. Add it to the list.

It's several years I've felt the West suffers from various forms of mental illness. We're also self-entitled and pampered ignoramuses. Look at those comments about Novak. A close friend of mine expressed the same feelings "F him. He thinks he's above the rules." It left me shocked. Then again, he also swallowed whole every possible government propaganda to the point of calling me a 'granny killer'. We've known each other 45 years. That's what stunned me about all this. People who know you - or you thought knew you - were ready to think the worst of you they were so given to the hysteria. The lack of common sense, courage and humanity left a mark.

I've got nothing to say to such people anymore. Our value system - if we ever had one (so much for ethics, eh?) - is fractured and can no longer be bridged. The civil order is ruptured and I don't see how we can repair it.

Bah. I'm going back to my Cinzano.

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