The system is failing even for those well positioned to ride the success of (but not hold stake in) the general market. The first upper-middle class runners are coming across the line to find nothing there. How does that effect the tipping point? Is this a marker of a Late Stage?

Does anyone even subscribe to the American Dream anymore? Maybe there isn’t a big pack running behind these first place white men to find a cliff at the finish line.

Is it the last remnants of an experiment burning out, or is it just the first car to crest the rollercoaster?

Or is the suicide stat meaningless and the power structure still favors inherited white male privilege so significantly that it’s dumb to grasp at minor perceived cracks forming? If this then what’s the stat about?

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lemme rattle some shit off. You commit suicide when:

    • Your dad succeeded easily and you can't

    • You have fewer friends than any other demographic, because

    • You don't really have a shared experience of anything with anyone - you're absolutely atomized

    • You lack the class consciousness to attribute your awful life to capitalism

    • You can't attribute it to racism or sexism - some reactionary white men try do this, but they know it's bull shit.

    • You're not a woman, you literally cannot touch anyone past a handshake,

    • Let me reiterate, depending on your circumstances it may be impossible to touch another human being without committing a serious crime or being attacked

    • You're not a woman, you can't talk to anyone about your feelings

    • You're not a woman, knowing those feelings are there is a secret, and a great source of shame

    When you can't find anyone to blame, maybe you blame Mexicans for a while but it really doesn't have purchase. You don't even know a Mexican. You blame yourself and then maybe you shoot yourself.

    • Sushi_Desires
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      4 years ago

      You lack the class consciousness to attribute your awful life to capitalism

      Yeah this is why I keep saying that Chris Hedges saved my life. If you lack tools to come to an understanding of the structures that control you, why the walls are closing in, and why nearly everything you were told about society growing up was a lie, it all seems like "it's my fault."