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“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”

― Theodore Kaczynski



Antidepressants don't "make you happy", alcohol does that. Antidepressants are intended to give you the ability to get out of bed in the morning.

If depression was just caused by inhumane work environments, why do Americans have it and not Bangladeshi T-shirt makers?


Culture - I imagine traditional cultures aren't inhaling pharmaceuticals at the alarming rates like in America


You've completely elided the fact that ADHD can be treated through means besides medication. And that this discussion thread is not about depression. And that traditional cultures are affected by depression.

https://psychcentral.com/depression/depression-in-indigenous...


> Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

THX 1138


I prefer Equilibrium. Gun kata ftw




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