Suicides and drug overdoses, largely up in the 25-44 age range, have been rising since the early 2010s but really spiked in the Covid Era *genuflects* to the point where the average life expectancy has fallen in a few recent year-to-year comparisons, and a little overall the last decade.
Not because people are overweight - which I've heard as an explanation for this trend - but, rather, because we scared the Ever-Living Piss out of Millenials as kids with tales of Global Scorching and Cute Fuzzy Critters disapperaing forever. The don't want to have children, they don't want to work, they don't want to take part in society. They despair in hopelessness.
We were "encouraged" - Nudged, as we've seen recently - to be scared. Frightened to panic. If you were already desparate, our response to the pandemic pushed a whole lot of them over the edge.
An then the Overlords realise that a terrified populace is very unlikely to be inventive, creative, dilligent, striving or reliable and trustworthy and is even more unlikely to be willing to take up arms on behalf of the Overlords' interests, abroad and domestic.
So what do the Overlords do then?
A) Get themselves a new populace, not yet as terrorised and terrified into depression as the original one.
Suicides and drug overdoses, largely up in the 25-44 age range, have been rising since the early 2010s but really spiked in the Covid Era *genuflects* to the point where the average life expectancy has fallen in a few recent year-to-year comparisons, and a little overall the last decade.
Not because people are overweight - which I've heard as an explanation for this trend - but, rather, because we scared the Ever-Living Piss out of Millenials as kids with tales of Global Scorching and Cute Fuzzy Critters disapperaing forever. The don't want to have children, they don't want to work, they don't want to take part in society. They despair in hopelessness.
We were "encouraged" - Nudged, as we've seen recently - to be scared. Frightened to panic. If you were already desparate, our response to the pandemic pushed a whole lot of them over the edge.
Because a frightened populace is easy to control and less likely to rebel.
"They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please. They're feeding our people that Government Cheese."
https://youtu.be/sR9ttAdrEHY?si=N29M0-cI6nACma6U
That was f*%&ing brilliant.
An then the Overlords realise that a terrified populace is very unlikely to be inventive, creative, dilligent, striving or reliable and trustworthy and is even more unlikely to be willing to take up arms on behalf of the Overlords' interests, abroad and domestic.
So what do the Overlords do then?
A) Get themselves a new populace, not yet as terrorised and terrified into depression as the original one.
Also A) Get themselves an Enemy to wage War upon.
Rinse and repeat.