The male suicides: Social perfectionism is killing men — and things are getting worse

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64. Certainly a mixed bag of issues that contribute

I'd say an increased amount of time to think is a modern part of the equation. Or at least, an increased amount of time to unproductively think. An existential situation. It's easy to get lost in your own head. Men aren't needed as much as they used to be. Any individual person isn't needed as much as they used to be. We're all replaceable. Most of us, very easily. Success in that kind of reality is going to be difficult to achieve. Then you question your worth. Your purpose. If you're not needed, or wanted, what's the point?

We live in a more abstract reality than we ever have before, which just keeps growing in scope. We've come to expect to be able to do pretty much anything, and have everything. In theory, it works. In physical reality, we can't do it. Some do, but most don't, which is the case with anything. Some people end up killing themselves, but most don't, even though the concept probably goes through the minds of most people, at least once.

As each of us continues to be needed and wanted less in various spheres of life, I can see the number rising. Everyone is also so busy trying to get through their own day that the social aspect of the human species, which has been very important through history, may also continue to deteriorate. Add to that a social circle, at least a close social circle, that most likely gets smaller as you age.

I'm not sure the human mind in general has quite adapted to the size of society yet. It's like, we can visualize and understand what 1 mile is. The 93 million miles between the Earth and the Sun is a bit different. We get it, but we don't really get it.

Which can be another avenue to go down that ties into this topic. Time, distance, direction, language, etc, are all subjective. We treat them as objective, because it makes the world make more sense. There's no actual north, or the month of May, or a month, or 1pm. The little lines that make up this sentence are just little lines that we made up out of thin air.