Leucosticte
Banned
- Jan 19, 2019
- 7
The Berlin Wall was built to keep East Germans from going over into the free world. The Soviets were worried about a brain drain if they let people freely leave to go to a place where they wouldn't be so unhappy.
The psychiatrists are the same way. They say, "You can't leave; if you say you're going to leave, we'll have the cops use physical force to stop you." They want to keep you in this world so you can continue making contributions to this society, even if you're not happy here.
As long as you remain alive, you'll be under social pressure to pretend to be happy, and that will make this country look, to the casual observer, as though it's not as inhumane and dysfunctional a place as it really is. They can propagandize all they want about what a great country this is, but suicide statistics don't lie, which is why they don't want you to become one of those statistics; it would serve as irrefutable evidence that there are some misfits in our society whose needs aren't being taken care of.
The Berlin Wall was a barrier keeping ALL East Germans in. It didn't matter what your situation was; you could be disabled, terminally ill, childless, friendless, whatever. Even if you had nothing really going for you where you were, they would still say, "You can't leave" because it would look bad if there were massive numbers of people wanting to get out of there.
But of course, the existence of the Wall itself made terrible propaganda, because why would you need a wall unless your country was such a shithole that people would want to leave everything behind to get out? Similarly, the fact that the state needs to have laws against suicide shows that they're worried people might have a reason to want to kill themselves.
They're worried that not just the crazy, but the not-crazy, might want to leave; because after all, if it were only the crazy people wanting to leave, why would they care? It's the not-crazy people they're worried about, because some of them might make useful contributions, if they're forced to continue participating in the daily grind. But they have to have a uniform policy across the board, to hide the true nature of what they're trying to accomplish.
At any rate, it would demoralize the productive members of society to see their friends and family members killing themselves; they might get the idea that maybe it's a good solution to their problems. The reality is that suicide has a lot of advantages over other means of dealing with stress, such as drinking; at least if you hang yourself, you won't kill anyone on the roadways, or die of a bad liver. But society wants to say that a slow and agonizing life and death are both normal, even if your own body and mind say otherwise.
First world countries don't need a border wall to keep people in, because people know they have nowhere better to go. But they have one final wall, the prohibition against suicide, to keep people from escaping the world entirely. If they think you're suicidal, they actually will put you in a place where there's a physical wall which they use to try to cut off your access to the means of suicide.
I say, "Tear down this wall!"
The psychiatrists are the same way. They say, "You can't leave; if you say you're going to leave, we'll have the cops use physical force to stop you." They want to keep you in this world so you can continue making contributions to this society, even if you're not happy here.
As long as you remain alive, you'll be under social pressure to pretend to be happy, and that will make this country look, to the casual observer, as though it's not as inhumane and dysfunctional a place as it really is. They can propagandize all they want about what a great country this is, but suicide statistics don't lie, which is why they don't want you to become one of those statistics; it would serve as irrefutable evidence that there are some misfits in our society whose needs aren't being taken care of.
The Berlin Wall was a barrier keeping ALL East Germans in. It didn't matter what your situation was; you could be disabled, terminally ill, childless, friendless, whatever. Even if you had nothing really going for you where you were, they would still say, "You can't leave" because it would look bad if there were massive numbers of people wanting to get out of there.
But of course, the existence of the Wall itself made terrible propaganda, because why would you need a wall unless your country was such a shithole that people would want to leave everything behind to get out? Similarly, the fact that the state needs to have laws against suicide shows that they're worried people might have a reason to want to kill themselves.
They're worried that not just the crazy, but the not-crazy, might want to leave; because after all, if it were only the crazy people wanting to leave, why would they care? It's the not-crazy people they're worried about, because some of them might make useful contributions, if they're forced to continue participating in the daily grind. But they have to have a uniform policy across the board, to hide the true nature of what they're trying to accomplish.
At any rate, it would demoralize the productive members of society to see their friends and family members killing themselves; they might get the idea that maybe it's a good solution to their problems. The reality is that suicide has a lot of advantages over other means of dealing with stress, such as drinking; at least if you hang yourself, you won't kill anyone on the roadways, or die of a bad liver. But society wants to say that a slow and agonizing life and death are both normal, even if your own body and mind say otherwise.
First world countries don't need a border wall to keep people in, because people know they have nowhere better to go. But they have one final wall, the prohibition against suicide, to keep people from escaping the world entirely. If they think you're suicidal, they actually will put you in a place where there's a physical wall which they use to try to cut off your access to the means of suicide.
I say, "Tear down this wall!"
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