Pushing aside those strangely convenient diagnostics of apparently normal people, mental illnesses are a common feature of modern life. There are recent but controversial studies convincingly claiming there's evidence that due to social and biological reasons, people are increasingly more emotionally unstable, physically weaker and less intelligent with every passing generation.
Think we crept out from authoritarianism and warlordism because suddenly a few dead european men became enlightened? Sometimes I wonder if we are not always simply pushing the line back to tolerable levels for the system to work still. This and drugs like anti-depressants of course, as System of a Down would cleverly mention.







