About depression

[matrixmann]

Man kann deprimiert sein und deswegen alles negativ wahrnehmen,
man kann aber auch von der Realität deprimiert werden.

One can be depressed and therefore perceive everything in the negative way,
but - one can also be depressed by the events that take place in the reality.

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Besides, people that just blame the whole social economic system and don't try hard to be better than they might be end up being extremely boring.

Maybe they need to act like they need to do things as if they are choosing for what they feel everyone in that situation should do because if everyone did that the social economic situation would be much better. If everyone of the working class were not mindless consumers and only valued education, reading, writing, and art, the huge corporations couldn't make huge profits by selling them worthless items they sell at huge stores like Walmart

[matrixmann]

You gonna laugh - somewhere else I got accused again of preaching the mantra of the system "those who do lots earn the most, those who do the least earn the least". It's funny, isn't it?

My mind concept is taking both things into account. Your own ability to perform efforts as well as limitations that are forced upon your (from the outside as well as from your own inside that you can't overcome).
As I get to experience it with education: It doesn't prevent you from being a fan of mindless stuff, but what it changes in you is the niveau of the things you start to be content with.
No need to talk about high arts or so, I'd think it's only an issue for people who just put an interest into it by nature.
What higher intellectual education rather changed was they wouldn't be content with every shit you'd throw before them as "entertainment" or "means of relaxation". They'd sort out more critically which things they used for this - and this would make them buy less of the lowbrow shit.