Depression and learned helplessness are a hell of a drug.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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Yeah but what can ya do
Amphetamines.
Real
What does learned helplessness mean?
If a being is in a situation where it's unable to escape or respond to things done to it, over time it'll often stop attempting to do so, even when the situation changes.
An example being an elephant not trying to rip out a chain from a wood post because it didn't work when it was a baby. It can easily escape now, but it still thinks it's trapped.
It's a similar thing with humans sometimes, it's hard to thrive and prosper when all your brain can think about is how to prevent past trauma from reoccurring, that they don't deserve a better life, or even that self improvement isn't possible.
Thanks for explaining.
Fuck you, be kind to yourself, dipshit.
Yeah, asshole!
I am in this picture and I don't like it
Does anyone actually have the tools to fix capitalism from stealing from the poor and making a few billionaires even richer?
I don't think I do...
I feel that there is an underlying moral problem in society that causes the rich to always exploit the poor. It feels like if you were to shuffle people around and pick a new set of rich people, said people would be almost equally likely to screw over their fellow man. If society was more moral in general, this exploitation would be reduced.
I'd say it would parallel the results from the Stanford Prison experiment. Give one group of people everything, including the power to decide what happens to people in the out-group, and they will inevitably become hostile towards the out group.
Morality schmorality, we need universal healthcare, daycare, a progressive tax system, and much more. Once society is equitable to all, then all have equal opportunity to behave "morally."
Morality schmorality, we need universal healthcare, daycare, a progressive tax system, and much more. Once society is equitable to all, then all have equal opportunity to behave βmorally.β
All of these things are maintained by humans. There is no perfect structure that can keep everyone "locked" to act in favor of the structure, whether it is through surveillance, bureaucracy or punishments. In any system, a subset of the participants will at some point have leeway to put a small dent to the system. Some systems are more resistant to self-destruction than others, but none are immune to it due to our inherent ability to choose between right and wrong. Therefore, evil systems can always be defeated, and good systems can always fall.
Most people.
I'm gonna go with /spins Rolodex/ choice is an illusion.