“Depression is anger turned inward”
Okay.
“Our society no longer works in the fields”
I’ve heard this before. Have you ever studied the religion, read the literature, or heard the music of agrarian societies? Not all of it, but much? They sound depressed as a weeping willow. Ever boiled Christianity down to its essentials? Basically, it’s that life sucks, then you die. One tho.g different now is that we’re more bored, and boredom is a vastly underestimated emotion. But there are equally burdensome things.
“Have you ever studied the religion, read the literature, or heard the music of agrarian societies?”
LOL
You cannot imagine how much I’ve studied.
Archaeology/anthropology/comparative religion is one of my great passions.
I was also blessed to born into a family which farmed the land to survive.
Until my grandparents died and the farming ceased, nobody had time to contemplate their navels and bemoan their ills.
We got up early, worked hard and fell into bed in sound sleep.
Until I got married and moved to a more ‘urban’ life, I didn’t really know I *had* any “problems”.
Case in point, my life has become so non-agrarian that my parents were baffled by my joyous appearance on their doorstep when the last snows hit.
Shoveling their walks and driveway was *fun*.
The adrenaline of exercise, the endorphins of good, simple hard work were intoxicating.
When I left, smiling but exhausted, I could see my mom looking out the window with what looked like bewilderment.
And then I came home and shoveled some more snow from places that didn’t really warrant shoveling.
I miss that life of simple, mindless labor.
It’s liberating and healing.
[you have a very bleak view of Christianity, I must say. that’s not what it is for me]
Boredom kills.
Animal experiments prove that.
Human are still “animals”, in our basest essence.