Comments on: Most people are depressed for no good reason at all http://otaqui.com/blog/71/most-people-are-depressed-for-no-good-reason-at-all/ Pete Otaqui's blog about web development and everything else Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: pete http://otaqui.com/blog/71/most-people-are-depressed-for-no-good-reason-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1756 pete Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:50:09 +0000 http://otaqui.com/wp/2007/04/most-people-are-depressed-for-no-good-reason-at-all/#comment-1756 Point 1 - I am neither from, nor in, America. Point 2 - Here in my country we have a welfare state, and although there is of course poverty, there is also a high degree of freedom and opportunity - compared at least to much of the rest of the world if not a fictional ideal. Point 3 - Big Brother, and the whole of Orwell's book 1984, is far more about an extreme form of Socialism (an all-pervasive state) rather than the extreme form of capitalism practiced in America. You might be served by trying to deal with facts before leaping both to conclusions and down people's throats. Point 1 – I am neither from, nor in, America.
Point 2 – Here in my country we have a welfare state, and although there is of course poverty, there is also a high degree of freedom and opportunity – compared at least to much of the rest of the world if not a fictional ideal.
Point 3 – Big Brother, and the whole of Orwell’s book 1984, is far more about an extreme form of Socialism (an all-pervasive state) rather than the extreme form of capitalism practiced in America.

You might be served by trying to deal with facts before leaping both to conclusions and down people’s throats.

]]> By: Zeke Krahlin http://otaqui.com/blog/71/most-people-are-depressed-for-no-good-reason-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1739 Zeke Krahlin Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:21:09 +0000 http://otaqui.com/wp/2007/04/most-people-are-depressed-for-no-good-reason-at-all/#comment-1739 You are perpetrating the Great American Lie: that in such a rich country, everyone is free to live a good and meaningful life. This is an ugly, barbaric, and violent nation whose wealth resides in the hands of 2% of the citizenry, the uber-elite. Go ahead and keep licking the arse-crack of Big Brother, you're a deceiver anyway. Homelessness, poverty, disease (that could be healed but for lack of health care) and ignorance (due to crappy public education) haunt this American life like a screeching banshee. Are you one of its disciples? You are perpetrating the Great American Lie: that in such a rich country, everyone is free to live a good and meaningful life. This is an ugly, barbaric, and violent nation whose wealth resides in the hands of 2% of the citizenry, the uber-elite. Go ahead and keep licking the arse-crack of Big Brother, you’re a deceiver anyway. Homelessness, poverty, disease (that could be healed but for lack of health care) and ignorance (due to crappy public education) haunt this American life like a screeching banshee. Are you one of its disciples?

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