So now it\u2019s about mental illness.<\/p>\n
We know where that mental illness grows. Not the medical one, the societal one. It grows in people in an unstable society. A society that makes no sense in so many ways and fuck us up. When I read Gawker\u2019s unemployment stories<\/a> I see what can fuel the explosion of an individual. 2010 has seen the highest suicide rate<\/a> in the US in 15 years.<\/p>\n What most boomers driving our Western society don\u2019t get is that things really changed, that today you can make the best choices and it just doesn\u2019t matter, you\u2019re still going to possibly end up in shitty places through the weight of things you cannot control at all. The sense that as an individual things are more random than ever before, is terrible.<\/p>\n That\u2019s like, the strongest despair you can get.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t even need to be so mentally ill to snap out of control. It just happens. The Colorado shooter<\/a> was an apparently brilliant dude, studying neuroscience. How could we see what was about to happen? We could not and no one could. On the other hand the Virginia Tech killer<\/a> was receiving treatment, therapy and special education for years and that didn\u2019t stop him. He wanted to replicate Columbine and did.<\/p>\n Look at the Empire State Building shooting<\/a>, the 58 year old perpetrator went there to kill his boss after he had been laid off. No psychiatric problems ever, he just had enough after being evicted from his apartment. Hitting the streets at almost 60 is probably crazy hard to swallow. <\/p>\n We shouldn\u2019t dismiss people\u2019s pain and call for the convenient \u201che was just a crazy and sick person\u201d, especially in a psychotic society teaching us to be good AND merciless. Which of course doesn\u2019t yield good results especially with white guys because when shit hits their fans, they are the ones falling from the highest point. Everybody else is used to not have all the rights and therefore are more capable to deal with the shittiest shit. This guy<\/a> went nuts because of the IRS and the government, crashing his plane in a building. Meanwhile, black people deal with the worst statistics possible -employment, incarceration, children death rate- and don\u2019t try that much to make everyone pay for it. Black people even have the lowest suicide rate<\/a>. Like Paul Mooney says, \u201cwhite folks, thanks for making us tough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway if it\u2019s about mental illness, it\u2019s about society\u2019s not individuals\u2019. This is the one we need to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So now it\u2019s about mental illness. We know where that mental illness grows. Not the medical one, the societal one. It grows in people in an unstable society. A society that makes no sense in so many ways and fuck us up. When I read Gawker\u2019s unemployment stories I see what can fuel the explosion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}