Part 3: Suicide in Slow Motion
August 28, 2007
Americans today are committing suicide in slow motion through a wide variety of actions such as the use of illicit and prescription drugs, alcohol abuse, obesity, and death by cop, just to name a few. Also, an ever-growing percentage of the population is slipping into mental illness as evidenced by the growing number of people suffering from depression and panic attacks. Another growing portion of the population is exhibiting the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and a significant and growing number of citizens now suffer from sleep disorders. Additionally, many citizens suffer from lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Many citizens are losing the ability to behave in a civil fashion in public as exhibited by the ever-increasing phenomena of road rage. These people exhibit anger that is exponentially disproportionate to the events that surround their rage. Some are so angry they are buying guns and killing their co-workers or random strangers in public places.
Most telling is that children and young adults have become increasingly more violent in the last twenty years. Five to twenty-four year-olds commit suicide at ever increasing rates when not prescribed anti-depressants.
From 1952 through 1992, suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled. From 1990 to 2003 it dropped by 28% by feeding the children anti-depressants. In 2004, it was decided to withhold anti-depressants and suicide spiked by 8% with ten to nineteen year-old girls leading the way. In 2004, the most recent year data is available, suicide was the third leading cause of death among children and young adults aged ten to twenty-four years in the United States.
The school shooting phenomena and rise of the child mass murderers have taken us into uncharted territory where a child methodically plans mass murder because they feel less than perfect with their social standing and then execute their fellow children, teachers, and parents with the same empty sorrow their adult counterparts do. In our ghettos the children carry and use guns as a matter of course like children from past generations played hide and go seek, and nobody does a thing to stop it.
The vast majority of children have lived their entire life in an adult created fantasyland where every last one of them has been raised to believe that the most minor accomplishment on their part is a sign of their vast superiority to others their age. Their social placement is defined by possessing the latest electronic device. Most of them are in some type of special class in school and shuttled after school by television lobotomized, depressed mothers in mini vans and SUVs as if they were visiting heads of state. When the mini van or SUV pulls up, out pops a child off to their next meeting, complete with a false sense of entitlement and self-importance.
Simple childhood games like baseball, football, volleyball and too many more to mention have morphed into pseudo life defining contests waged by children against children and fueled by adults who stoke the flames of competition as if life and death hung in the balance. Cheating is not just condoned at home and school, but encouraged and the art of plausible denial is a skill held in high esteem.
Our children play games on the Internet and inhabit virtual worlds that their parents know nothing about. These virtual worlds bring them face to face with the sewer hole of humanity and untold violence, sex and deceit that the average normal adult has never been exposed to, no less dealt with before becoming a teenager.
They have seen hangings, water board torture, electrocution and more child porn and adult porn than their parents can even imagine. They know that adults take children and what happens to them. They also know that adults watch huge quantities of pornography. They play video and online games where they pretend to kill countless people and creatures for hours.
When questioned by their parents, they do what children have always done, they deny ever being involved, but some other kids they have heard are. The parents fall into the trap that parents have for thousands of years, they believe them because they want to. They forget what it was like to be a kid. Only now everything is different, the kid game is not about a cigarette, some pot or a stolen kiss after school with their friends. These children now visit the virtual world's human sewer hole everyday after school and all weekend long.
The children know global warming is real, the bees are dying and politicians don't tell the truth.
They know Bill Clinton got a blowjob, and that’s what they call it, in the White House, and have oral sex parties after school before their parents come home from work. They also know that George Bush lied about why we went to war in Iraq.
These children know that nothing is as it seems and nobody is really safe. It should not be such a big surprise that our children are depressed and committing suicide and murder. About 19 million adults and 11 million children in the United States take drugs for clinical depression.
Why is this happening? The simple answer is the citizens are not happy.
