Here’s Why Despair Is So Commonplace Today

The despair you feel, sometimes or all the time, is not about yourself or your trauma or what is broken in you.

It is the quasi-intentional by-product of the toxic culture you have been steeped in since birth, and the literally toxic environment you grew in (There is a teaspoon of plastic inside your brain, right now, as you read these words.)

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Problems.

Like “smoking”. Like loneliness, and the destruction of community and connection.

Like this one (and a million more on top):

Problems to Look Out for When Buying a Used Subaru (Forester) – All Generations

Going back “15 thousand years”.

More or less.