Deaths of despair

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."

In an interview at Uncommon Knowledge the Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, who published a famous book, The Population Bomb, stated "The 2.1 births per woman… ... have slumped steadily since 2008. We've been... on an escalator going down ... and the United States is now maybe on track to be 20 percent below the replacement level if current trends continue "

But even more alarming 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”.

To Identify the why may not be as difficult as one might think. The key to why there is now a pending population collapse are found in the psychology of men and their culture which has been written about since the earliest history of mankind. It is in his stories and myths, his legends and sacred texts. Society is in decline because the masses of mankind is degenerating as a result of the Leaven of the Pharisees being pervasive in every household in the world.

The disease

Normally there are three different types of suicide: egoistic, altruistic, and anomic, but Emil Durkheim listed a fourth fatalistic suicide.

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 or sedentary approach to life, a compulsion to lie or dishonor your word and betray friends and spouses or parents and children, lack of appreciation of what others do for you or unwillingness to do anything for others may all be contributing factors or elements that could be included in that list of disease types that degenerate individual's psychological stability, relationships within society and therefore society itself.

Society just 200 years ago required social bonds within a community. A good reputation among your pears was essential to maintain acceptance and value within the eyes of the people you would depend upon in time of need or even destitution. Caring about not only your immediate family but also contributing to your community would earn you the respect that would be needed. Investing in your local community with generosity and regularity would create the circumstance where you would far more likely to receive aide when there was a true need.

When people neglect their neighbor and turn a blind eye to their needs or shirk by neglect any direct responsibility to or for their neighbor, or attempt to place the burden and obligation to their fellow man upon others like the legal charity of the state, a creeping neglect of their own personal responsibility often follows not far behind.

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 generation

When the individual is not willing to sacrifice their life for those who gave them life, life itself becomes centered on personal profit and and comfort. The next generation has little value to those who not caring for the last generation soon cares only for themselves.

According to Ehrlich, “the single best predictor for National fertility rates happens to be wanted family size as reported by women... 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.”

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. 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. 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 desire to make the sacrifice to create and 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

The death of ethics

A true understanding of the Ten Commandments is nothing more than establishing a common list of ethical standards which will contribute to the social bonds of a healthy society. When Moses set out from the bondage of Egypt he went about creating an intentional community where the people would have the maximum amount of liberty with a proper level of regulation. Most of that regulation was through the daily choices of the individual and a dependence upon freewill offerings to support the government and all social welfare.

Any form of legal charity was considered to be the dainties of rulers and should be avoided even if you have to put a knife to your own throat to curb your appetite. Any form of collective social purse was also to be avoided for it too would run toward death. In fact to eat at the welfare tables of rulers who exercise authority was considered to be a "snare and a trap" that would bring the people back into the bondage of Egypt.

Israel was a voluntary government but of course through sophistry and the false doctrines of some pharisees his strategy was twisted and deformed.

Without ethics there is death

The term anomie is a "lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group." The phenomena of anomic suicide in sociology is when a person completes suicide due to a lack of regulation, it is called anomic suicide.

The Sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that when the social bonds between people in a society are either too strong or too weak, there is an increase in the rate of suicide.

Anomic suicide is common in situations where society is undergoing major changes or the individual is experiencing a highly stressful situation, which leads to feelings of confusion and disappointment. "High stress" is a relative term since what is high stress to one individual may be easily endured by another.

The Outward Bound movement began when it was discovered that large numbers of young sailors were drowning in the Atlantic during WWII when ships would go down while older more experienced sailors were surviving until rescued. The younger sailors believed there was no hope and so they just gave up and died.

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