In the current debate, discussion, etc., or whatever it is on violence in the United States, we continually hear that the country has a "mental health crisis".
Nobody seems to doubt this, and indeed it seems true.
We hear a lot of other common things stated by Americans about the United States, including that it's the "greatest nation on Earth". But does a great nation have a massive mental health crisis.
What's going on?
Well, it should be apparent that the crisis is an existential one. If we have a massive crisis, it's because there's something massively wrong in the culture itself. Other nations have lots of firearms in circulation without having what we're experiencing, and that alone tells us something.
And we also know that, contrary to what we often hear, our society is getting less and less violent, but at the same time our mental health is getting worse. But mental health getting worse isn't a good thing by any measure.
And here's another fact of this crisis. From at least an external view, nobody whatsoever is going to do anything about this, really.
And here's why.
What is going on is that we've erased a set of standards that governed our society that were nearly wholly based on a Christian world view, on everything. In their place we've erected nothing at all, other than a concept that whatever pleases you, you should do, even though every indicator is that this in fact doesn't make for a happy society at all. Most recently we've even tried to erase biological lines written into our DNA, and simultaneously flooded our society with new intoxicants of all types, as the old ones apparently were sufficient. Lines that at one time, if they were crossed, resulted in some sort of institutional intervention, no longer do. Those in society crying for help aren't going to get it, as our new libertine society simply holds that their crying is simply an expression of their soul, rather than a desperate cry for help.
To add to it, we've wiped out meaningful and productive labor for an entire class of individual, which was often all that kept them tethered to something. For many more, we've erased the change that tehir employment and daily endeavors are their own, rather than some board of directors living far away who care little about them. And the dream of working on the land, the most elemental dream of all, is just about dead in the United States.
And, added to that, the erasing of the natural bonds of family in an aggressive way means that entire generations of children are essentially raised in conditions that no human being has been since some prior variant of our genus started to become really intelligent.
Mental health crisis?
Yes, indeed.
Are we going to do something about it?
Probably not more than doping up as many people as we can and sending many more to bogus therapy.
