Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
What in the world has happened to us? Once upon a time, America was made up of tightly-knit communities that were united by family, faith and patriotism, but now we are more isolated than ever before. Of course one of the biggest reasons for this is the fact that we are all spending countless hours staring at screens instead of interacting with real people, and this is something that I covered in a previous article. However, our fundamental beliefs are also significantly shaping how we behave. For the past couple of generations, we have de-emphasized family, faith and patriotism as a nation, and instead we have become an extremely “me-centered” society that is primarily focused on doing whatever makes ourselves happy in the moment. But this single-minded pursuit of individual happiness has resulted in much of the country being perpetually mired in loneliness, depression and/or addiction.
When you look at the numbers, they truly are startling. For example, a recent survey that was conducted by Cigna found that almost half of all Americans feel lonely…
Nearly half of Americans are lonely, according to a survey of 20,000 people across America by Cigna, which used the well-regarded UCLA Loneliness Scale to measure responses. Indeed 46% said they sometimes or always feel alone and 47% say they sometimes or always feel left out.
And other surveys have produced numbers that are even more alarming. A Harris Poll that was conducted a few years ago actually discovered that 72 percent of all Americans “experience loneliness”…
The survey of more than 2,000 Americans conducted by the Harris Poll last month on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association, showed that almost three-quarters (72 percent) of Americans experience loneliness. And for many, it’s not just a once-in-a-while occurrence — one-third said they feel lonely at least once a week.
Of course this is commonly known as “the happiest time of the year”, but for many it just magnifies their loneliness.
People see love, warmth and community modeled in television commercials and in Hallmark movies, and they assume that most people out there must be living lives like that.
Sadly, that is not true at all. What we see on our televisions are echoes of the way that America used to be, and many of us would love to see that type of culture make a roaring comeback.
But for now, America is a very, very lonely place, and this reality is reflected in a song that was just released by one of our most popular pop singers…
Mabel, the singer behind the hit “Don’t Call Me Up,” has a new track for those who struggle with loneliness during the holidays.
Titled “Loneliest Time of Year,” Mabel captured how for some people, the holidays can heighten feelings like loneliness, loss and depression. In the song, released Friday, she sings lines like, “Sorry I’m not so merry/But I feel like this yearly/Christmas time isn’t my vibe/Brings no joy into my life” and “If I’m feeling lonely/I can’t be the only one.”
Yes, millions of American families will gather during the holidays, but way too many of those gatherings are filled with bitterness, resentment, strife and discord.
In fact, another new survey has found that the average American only needs 3 hours and 54 minutes “before they start to feel sick of their families”…
The holidays are supposed to be a time to come together with family and celebrate, but a new survey finds that most Americans can barely get through an evening with their family before needing a break. A total of 2,000 Americans who usually travel to visit family during the holidays took part in the research, and 75% say they will inevitably need to get away from their relatives and indulge in some much needed “me time.”
In fact, it only takes respondents an average of three hours and 54 minutes before they start to feel sick of their families.
This isn’t how it is supposed to be.
We were created to love and to be loved. And when you remove love from the equation, people become very miserable quite rapidly.
In America today, “deaths of despair” are happening at the highest rate in all of U.S. history. The following information comes directly from the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee…
Anne Case and Angus Deaton famously chronicled a dramatic rise among middle-aged non-Hispanic whites since 1999 in “deaths of despair”—deaths by suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis.1 The Social Capital Project has extended Case and Deaton’s research to cover the full American population as far back as available data permit: to 1900 in some cases, and to 1959 or 1968 in others. We present here a snapshot of the long-term trends in deaths of despair. We also attach our full dataset for use in future research, including results broken down by age, sex, and race.
Mortality from deaths of despair far surpasses anything seen in America since the dawn of the 20th century. (The trend for middle-aged whites reveals a more dramatic rise but only goes back continuously to 1959.) The recent increase has primarily been driven by an unprecedented epidemic of drug overdoses, but even excluding those deaths, the combined mortality rate from suicides and alcohol-related deaths is higher than at any point in more than 100 years.
So it would appear that our very unhappy nation is rapidly becoming even unhappier.
And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what this is happening.
As a society, we decided that marriage wasn’t important. So now we have one of the lowest marriage rates and one of the highest divorce rates in the entire world.
As a society, we decided that children weren’t important. So now our birth rate has dropped below replacement level and a third of all U.S. children live in a home without a father.
As a society, we decided that patriotism wasn’t important. So now the American flag is being banned by some schools as a “divisive symbol” and most of our young people have never even read the entire U.S. Constitution.
As a society, we decided that God wasn’t important. So now just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding in our society, and we are literally on a path that leads to national suicide.
If you feel lonely, miserable or depressed this holiday season, I would definitely encourage you to get my latest book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters”. It is filled with very practical advice that will enable you to start turning things around immediately. But even more importantly, reach out to those that you love during this holiday season.
Life is way too short to live it alone.
Society would have us believe that those that have the most money are the most “successful”. But that is not true at all. In reality, those that love the most are really the most “successful”, and so let us endeavor to be people of great love.
When you believe in nothing what is left?
Government.
(ZIONIST .001%) COUNTERFEIT ‘Jew’ World Order.
If Mitch Snyder cannot once mention the invasion of our country by alien races and the subversion of our culture by jewish power in an article about White suicide and White loneliness, he can go to hell.
And the way the entire media has turned white people into Satans.
These issues really took root when the Frankfurt School and their doctrines began infesting the universities, and grade-schools in the 1930’s. Kalergi Plan USA was codified in 1965, which compounded to the problems. None of this happened by itself, Western Civilization’s destruction has been directed from within for almost a century. White people have refused to face who is destroying them, and this is the end result.
Societies don’t decide anything, individuals do. Individuals don’t control institutions, policies or borders, governments and corporations do.
You see where this is going, Snyder?
Dink – dual income needed – started us down this road.
Religion viewed as unnecessary
Abortion just a means of relief
LGBT qwyz. A normal misunderstood relationship
Demographics are the devil
Law is just for some
After doing this math, what result did we expect?
Abe Lincoln knew what to do about insufficient patriotism.
Murder 600000 Americans for excercizing their rights. Had a couple of battles gone differently, Lincoln would be rememered by history along side Stalin and Hitler.
I certainly remember that traitorous bastard that way.
We have lost our sense of existential meaning. It is not that life has a particular meaning because we are supposed to bring the meaning to life. We are the authors of our own existence. Omar Khayyam wrote: ‘I myself am heaven and hell.’ That is the way to look at it. Life is a miracle and a mystery. That mystery is passion of my soul. We should feel awe, wonder and gratitude at the fact that we are even here. In the modern world it is tough to see and feel this way because we are part of a system that literally wants to eat your soul.
Two main factors: the decline of Christianity and mass immigration from the non-European world which are in fact related.
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“In the presence of diversity, we hunker down [and] act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.”
― Robert D. Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”
This is all Oz and the tin man nonsense ! You really want to bring a loving caring change to America ? Start at the Main Street Economic Level !
The average working families were tossed overboard in the late 70’s and early 80’s destroying the middle class family success margins thus bankrupting the nation morally and financially !
Wages dropping and stagnant , meaningful employment with real world living wages and benefits and a future are gone and replaced by labor pools of illegals and low wage part time positions . All this was no accident ! A collusion of government and wealthy elites have fleeced the population and left the nation a barren wasteland drowning in debt . Those working for government agencies have barely felt a ripple but you tax base from industry working people are no longer paying in enough to prop up what has now become parasites feeding of what is left to be pillaged or painted over with debt ! Debt piled on the backs of those victimized by a system they are forced to support or depend on to survive . Now you say we should not be depressed or sad , I agree ! We should be mad as hell and fucking a shitload of those responsible for our state up with a pure hatred and disgust ! The very same attitude shown to us by them !
FORGET ME NOT
Nothing has happened to the American Citizens that they are not themselves responsible for. Being a Citizen in a Republic requires duties that go hand and hand with the rights that come with them.
Benjamin Franklin was well aware of this when he spoke the phrase that we now had ” a republic… if you can keep it”.
Government is always corrupt by its nature, and it attracts the lowest forms of humanity seeking power over others. The wealthy will always attempt to corrupt government to make themselves even richer. Those are the facts of life and human nature, and they will never change
It is the duty of the Citizens to control their government, and to be involved in their own interests.
When Citizens become too comfortable to be bothered to be active participants in government, they are then derelict in their duty as Citizens and should expect their interests to be disregarded.
Most Citizens in American today cannot even be bothered to educate themselves to a point where they can make educated decisions when they vote, so do not complain about what the system has done, complain about what the people have allowed.
It is difficult, and sometimes dangerous to take a stand, but that is what liberty and justice require. When a people are too lazy and cowardly to do what it takes to be free and prosperous, they should not expect those things…
I just love over generalizations and expectations being foisted on me. Who doesn’t get a tad tired with anything or anyone after awhile? Family? Please, after a huge meal I don’t want to socialize…I want a nap. Michael is selling a book, that’s what the article is all about.
When you have a country that practices self determination, the buck stops with the Citizens. They are the ones who hold the real power… providing they are brave enough and willing to use it.
I put this link up on Donkey’s thread: That’s it…I’m out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Netflix Christmas special which implies Jesus was gay sparks backlash from Christians
In agreement with mygirl on a comment she made, but it fits here as well.
In my opinion it is a spiritual battle not a political one. The Luciferians use Marxism and Socialism as tactics in their rebellion against God. They are both just a means to an end. This was agood read.
TAKEDOWN: CULTURAL MARXISM AND THE WAR ON THE FAMILY
“The communists of old, who used guns and tanks to take over a nation, and the cultural Marxists of more recent times, who seek to take a nation over from within, have both made clear their hatred of marriage and family, and have done all they can to destroy both.”
“I have written before about the goals of the communists in the West. One such American list includes these points:
-Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
-Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.
-Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
-Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
-Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
-Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
-Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
-Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
-Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.”
Although it would be wrong to blame all Jews for what plagues the western world, we would also be wrong in not recognizing the disproportionate, perhaps essential, role that Jews have played in the destruction of Christian Western Civilization going back to the crucifixion of Christ over 2000 years ago. This is an inescapable truth that many people understandably refuse to deal with…the so-called Jewish Question. Sadly, the Jewish Frankfurt School is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jewish organizations that contributed to the subversion of our culture and nations. A lot of insight can be gleaned from the Talmud, the most “holy” book in modern Talmudic Judaism. In my opinion, the Talmud must be exposed if we are ever to deal with the Jewish Question.
See: THE TALMUD UNMASKED: THE SECRET RABBINICAL TEACHINGS CONCERNING CHRISTIANS By Rev. I. B. Pranaitis (Roman Catholic Priest). http://www.talmudunmasked.com/
No altruism among Americans. Ameriscums abandon their own more than any other culture on the planet. They betray one another so that trust is not a virtue or an option. This leaves people alone more than any other single issue. The American indian had a name for them, they called them “the people with the forked tongue”.
Except we’re also the most charity-giving nation on Earth. I’ve been the recipient of some very generous kindness from absolute strangers. I never give details to people about my own giving, but I’ve made a point to return the favor to a few strangers, too.
You say that like charity is a good thing….
Whatever, Snyder.
I never decided any of this stuff. Nobody asked me for my opinion. As far as I can tell, we did not decide anything as a society. Instead, the left decided and forced their insanity on the rest of us at gunpoint.
If people are miserable, it’s their own problem.
There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to be around your family. If you new my extended family, you wouldn’t want to be around many of them, either.
And there’s nothing wrong with Me-time. I’ve never been someone who needed a lot of interaction with other people to feel good. I’ve always thought that was a weakness. I’m juuuuust fine all by my lonesome with a good book and some coffee or an adult beverage. If they ever need a volunteer to shoot off to Mars for 5 years, I’m right here.
If you are sitting on your backside waiting for someone to come ask you your opinion then you will have a long wait because that is not how the system works. Do you think the special interests are sitting arround waiting for someone to do their bidding?
Politics is a sport of participation, and if you are not activly participating, you are not doing your duty as a citizen.
That is the problem, finding a Citizen that wants to put an once of effort into fulfilling thier duties as a citizen is as rare as hens teeth.
What better way to destroy a nation than to tear familial ties asunder.
It gets really old hearing people complain about not being happy as if happiness was the normal state of mind. Having lived several decades, I can tell you people are as happy now as they have ever been. Life is not about happiness, it is about survival. It is about overcoming obstacles and becoming satisfied with your self as a person. It is learning what is most important and in what order 1, people 2. money 3. things. Much of what is perceived to be unhappiness comes from confusing the order of those 3 things. Possessions are the least important, and therefore will give you the least happiness, but our society believes just the opposite.
Faith has nothing to do with happiness, because all faith is a belief in what cannot be proven, because it most probably does not exist. We have replaced faith in a magic man in the sky with faith in the possessions we do not have being able to make us happy, even though the the ones we obtained do not.
Patriotism is not love of your government, it is the love of the principals your country was founded on. Liberty, Freedom, and Justice. Those qualities have been diminishing in the US since the very beginning and the government is the entity diminishing them. It is not pride in a piece of cloth, or a military that kills millions of innocent people for profit.
Happiness comes from relationships. From genuine caring and love for other people. From sharing and laughing and enjoying people.
Gee. I “wonder” if THIS has ANYTHING to do with it:
1) Kabbalah, Chabad, & Noahide Laws EXPOSED!!!
2) Charting The ‘Jew’ York Times’ Narrative, Part Three [Updated]
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60284
Read the COMMENTS following item #2, above. Prepare yourself for a REAL HISTORY LESSON. (Hint: tRuTh_Be_ToLd!)
When was the last time you got off your ass and actually did something to change things? It is much easier to blame it someone else while you are couch surfing, too lazy to help yourself.