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Well. Damn. My point was that demonizing others for depression is pretty low, then to use it to aggrandize, I am sorry, but that is sort of low.

Yeah, the beauty part, is another issue. People might actually be depressed because those things they hold dear and beautiful are being destroyed. I can see beauty despaired or depressed. I live a comfortable life in a beautiful place, but without community, as Hedges wrote in his story about the gym, we have nothing. This is the uncomfortable Truth. After decades of trying to build community, there is none. The Transcience caused by post industrial capitalism, wars and migration, alienates and traumatizes all eventually, except for a few lucky ones.

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