mikiemo83
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It can be as simple as people are now loners, remotely working from home in isolation.Yeah there is that.
It seems, the more "connected" we've become the more isolated we start to feel. Opiates are a drug of dispair. They're painkillers in every sense of the word. They treat physical pain, but they also suppress emotional pain.
Why are suicide rates skyrocketting? Why are more and more people choosing to spend their days zoning out on opiates. Why are rates of depression through the roof?
There's no single smoking gun answer (there rarely is) but human beings are social animals. The worst thing you can do to us is isolate us from other people. That's why even in prison, surrounded by rapists and murderers, solitary is considered one of the harshest punishments you can hand out.
More and more the interactions we have with other humans are done through screens. We're interacting with each other but we're not connecting with each other. That breeds lonliness and dispair.
And opiates take that away. Temporarily at least.
Followed up with getting on-line and seeing others pretending to be living the life you want.
Next playing on-line games with someone in Guam and not making any sense to each other based on a language barrier.
you wake up and realize if I didn't go get a coffee every day I could go weeks without talking to a person face to face.