Deaths of despair

"The term deaths of despair comes from Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, who set out to understand what accounted for falling U.S. life expectancies. They learned that the fastest rising death rates among Americans were from drug overdoses, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease. Deaths from these causes have increased between 56% and 387%, depending on the age cohort, over the past two decades, averaging 70,000 per year." ^[1]

In an interview at Uncommon Knowledge the Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, who published a famous book, The Population Bomb, stated that among the, “native born American anglo-man there's a big overlap with the deaths of Despair problem I can identify it I can't explain to you why it's happening but its results, its consequences are alarming”.

The reason and why is because of the Leaven of the Pharisees is in every house in America.

The diseases of despair include at least three classes of behavior related medical conditions that increase in groups of people who experience despair due to a sense that their long-term social and economic prospects are bleak. The three commonly listed disease types are drug overdose, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease.

But in truth obesity, bad or unhealthy diets or eating habits, lazy approach to life, a compulsion to lie or dishonor your word, lack of appreciation of what others do for you are also contributing factors or elements.

The almost callous disregard for our personal health expresses an almost contempt for life. The struggle to survive may wrought a pattern and and motivational momentum to survive in the mind of man. When life is to easy comfort and immediate personal gratification may overtake the desire for continuous survival. The next generous has little value to those who care only for themselves.

According to Ehrlich, “the single best predictor for National fertility rates happens to be wanted family size as reported by women...<-! now you note there are polls that ask women how many children they'd like and you know that this doesn't correlate perfectly with birth rates but it's the best indicator in one sense this is a reassuring even heartening finding--> it highlights the agency at the very heart of our Humanity. You're talking about free will. They are people choosing their family size. But if we permit the non-material realm of life to figure into our inquiry we may conclude that proposals to revive the American birth rate through subsidies vastly underestimate the challenge. The challenge may ultimately prove to be civilizational in nature.”^[2]

The "Deaths of despair" are inevitable when the culture of society abandons the responsibility for the care of their neighbor to men who exercise authority and force rather than love and charity.^[3] There is no room for hope in a place where entitlement is king.

The warning that birth rates will drop should be first seen when the masses develop an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them at the expense of their neighbor.^[4] There should be little doubt that the next generation will be neglected, aborted and even abandoned if the individuals of society begin to neglect or just do less for the last generation. When the sacrifice required to take care of the last generation diminishes the the desire to care for the next generation shall soon follow the same path of abandonment.

Understanding this principle in the Law of Nature may give us a greater understanding of the statement, "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." Exodus 20:12^[5]

Footnotes

↑ Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration By David Introcaso, Dec. 29, 2021
↑ The interview at Uncommon Knowledge the Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb.
↑ Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
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"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.

The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.
↑ Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 15:4 "For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death... 6 "And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition." see Corban.

Matthew 19:19 "Honour thy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Mark 7:10 "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:"

Mark 10:19 "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother."

Luke 18:20 "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother."

Ephesians 6:2 "Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)"

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[1] Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration By David Introcaso, Dec. 29, 2021

[2] The interview at Uncommon Knowledge the Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb.

[exauth-3] Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."

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"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.

The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.

[5] Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 15:4 "For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death... 6 "And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition." see Corban.

Matthew 19:19 "Honour thy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Mark 7:10 "For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:"

Mark 10:19 "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother."

Luke 18:20 "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother."

Ephesians 6:2 "Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)"

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