Listening to NPR — “Why is everyone depressed”?
everyone is angry? or upset?
this is so weird.
why *is* everyone depressed?
its apparently fashion to be depressed and sarcastic. depression, sarcasm, and consistent cynicism is annoying to me, really (i do think “optimistic cynicism” is a good quality in general). As annoying as some people find the “overly cheerful”.
if it were based on empathy, i may have a better chance dealing with it, but much of the time its selfish–either motivated by feeling guilty of “having so much”, or just not being able to realize how much worse they could have it (as you can see this is based on personal experience ;)
i’ve been working on another post that kinda touches on this, but it will have to wait, as i have other things to get to.