Today is World Suicide Day. Suicide has increased 45% in the last two generations and is now the highest death risk for young people all over the world. Korea, Japan, China, Kazakstan, Hungary, Finland, Estonia have exceptionally high suicide rates. I know people who make dramatic scenes menacing to take their lives but never do, so I learned not to take it seriously. Most suicides are linked to the potent psycho drugs we are all taking these days. But those drugs are unknown in China. So what I know.
3 comments:
The entire Western world celebrates suicide day 365 days of the year.
Anon.
1. I remember seeing a rather good subtitled film out of Japan entitled Suicide Club that was all about the japanese engaging in mass suicides like some sort of fad or group activity, like a picnic.
2. All of the countries you listed are either in N. Europe, or east Asia. I wonder if there is something in these societies (godlessness?) that they have in common that causes them to destroy themselves individually.
~Mark Doane
I don't think religion is going to fix this problem.
I think that in the modern world, adolescents are particularly liable to be overwhelmed by feelings of futility, hopelessness,and alienation. There is no doubt that we can't all be winners all the time, the way they teach children today. Disappointment is inevitable.
I suspect military service and a sense of nationalism might actually provide some meaning, rather than the draining and demoralising PC mantras, the anti-nativist descrimination by the Globalists who have hijacked our governments, and the (actually unachievable) vacuities of materialism.
I am not suggesting we dress them all in brown shirts and send them goose-stepping round the countryside, but to the extent that they are indoctrinated to believe in abstract propositions rather than in any real community of related people, they are made more vulnerable to these existential crises.
Anon.
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