That's not the argument at all. These products give you a false sense of security, giving you an unwarranted impression that you are safe if they have not activated. Just as bad, they can give false positives with alarming frequency, which could lead you to randomly accuse people of trying to drug you on completely…

I was actually impressed with the intelligence of the comments in this article until I read yours.

This is complete bullshit. If he didn't rape someone, he should absolutely defend himself. People are raped and it's horrible, but people are also falsely accused and that's also an injustice. These things come down to pure "he said, she said" and that's what makes them so difficult, but an innocent person…

Around the time CK went on his rant about the testing, someone else I follow talked about how he got burned out from that kind of culture & between 9th-11th grade went from routine A+'s to mostly C's & B's. He said guidance counselors were constantly telling him & his parents he was throwing his future away but he had…

I can't believe I'm writing a serious response to a Magary article but here it goes.

An oddly specific but salient point.

more importantly, we seriously need to retire this 'Umm...' thing. insufferable.

Yes, and if so paranoid, why not be out there with your kid as he rides a tricycle near the road?

He's a pompous, disrespectful blowhard who countenances spying and bullies guests. She a racist shit-stirrer who thinks she's advancing feminism by trolling and throwing other women she doesn't like under the bus, and then asking for dudebro points for being so "edgy" and "an equal opportunity offender". So I come…

I was just about to say this. He is an ass, and she is really just the worst kind of bottom of the barrel, "edgy" comedian who isn't really funny.

As if corporations REALLY operate in a FREE market. There's nothing big business likes more than a RIGGED market...as long as it only favors big business. Get yer nose out of that ancient economics textbook you must regard as a Bible and take a look at reality.

I'd say that existential awareness is one aspect of it. Another is a lack of goals. Previous generations have, to a lesser extent, had some driving force behind them. Whether that was blind patriotism/nationalism due to indoctrination, a looming threat of fascist oppression or merely trying to survive.

Personally, I think the previous generation struggled with it too, it just wasn't identified as depression. Either that or they were too busy working to really think about their depression.