when politics and their lives inevitably come together, they quickly develop beliefs

they'll give a talking point they heard a thousand times and immediately cave

most people, living in an alienated society

a world of factories, of steel, of commodities

in this world, there is no use for beliefs

beliefs don't put food on the table

manifestos don't bring health insurance

but when that world starts to crack, to shear

beliefs become the difference between life and death, and our souls find life once more

people will just believe what the pack around them does

sometimes, but often not

after all, why are mass shootings continuously increasing in frequency?

various reasons

Some people are mental, some use it as a tool to spread manifestos and beliefs, martyrdom

some people may just wanna kill a bunch of others

nah

it's a product of alienation

lashing out against a constantly intensifying claustrophobia

we're trapped, pinned, caged

more and more people are realising that, and they react in different ways

depression rates, skyrocketing

I'm sure alienation is a factor

mass shooting rates, skyrocketing

bipolar rates, skyrocketing

I imagine it goes deeper than that though

suicide rates, skyrocketing

alienation is incredibly deep

our personal autonomy has been robbed from us

and that kind of thing affects people

we've taken such horrific concepts as 'mid life crisis' and normalised them totally

grown men suddenly wanting to kill themselves, throwing themselves into all sorts of flings and spending money lavishly in a desperate attempt to *feel* once again isn't 'just a part of life'

it's an atrocity

things like this have been increasing in scale and intensity, and will continue to do so

pollution was bad once

it has done little other than get worse since we first started doing it

they patched up the ozone layer as factories quadrupled in quantity

rachel carson wrote her environmentalist novel 'silent spring' as the aral sea was disappearing

things have done nothing more than get much worse for hundreds of years and we're only just now realising on a societal level that it's going to keep doing that until we make some serious changes

Sorry doing homework, I just don't see how you can attribute all of this to alienation. I certainly see it as a factor but your acting like it is the sole instigator.

In the cases of alienation your mentioning there's also a huge umbrella of causes to what leads to people feeling this way

alienation is not a sole instigator, rather a consequence