Poverty: a perfectly affordable adjustment to this greedy world.

[Q_Ball]

Hi. I'm Q.Ball, a newbie. I just turned 30....
And now I'm 50
20 years have vanished into the abyss that is depression and anxiety. I am socially isolated for several reasons and so by coming here I hope to encounter and re-engage with some like heart-ed souls. Assuming you aren't all just robotic algorithms designed to sway me from thoughts of revolution.

[Myah_Briggs]

Hi Q.Ball,

Sounds like the last 20 years have been very trying for you.

20 years is a long time to be living with depression and anxiety .

I'm interested to listen and know a bit more about you.

I am also interested to understand a bit more about your words, "Poverty: a perfectly affordable adjustment to this greedy world"

Speak soon.

[PamelaR]

Hi Q Ball and welcome to our community forums

Nah, we're not robotic algorithms. We're living human beings who experience pain, joy, love, anger, happiness etc.

I won't sway you from you thoughts of revolution. Marx was pretty good at designing his plan with the Communist Manifesto.

It's a long time since Karl's time. Is there anything you want to talk about that's troubling you? You talk about turning 30 but being 50. Has something happened?

Kind regards

PamelaR

[PamelaR]

Welcome Myah Briggs

Great to have you onboard. We're certainly having a good time with a lot of historical namesakes, Marx, Myer Briggs.

I agree the title of the thread is interesting - Poverty: a perfectly affordable adjustment to this greedy world.

I'm feeling inclined to think Q Ball may be studying sociology at uni. Happy to be corrected Q Ball.

Kind regards

PamelaR

[Q_Ball]

Hello Myah Briggs
The topic I created as a play on word, I'm not sure it meets the definition of a paraphrase, of one of my favourite quotes. It seems to have two fathers.

"Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world." R. D. Laing
"Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.”― Thomas Stephen Szasz

[Q_Ball]

Hello PamelaR
Thanks for the welcome. I'm a kind of self funded freelance social anthropologist. No I never did get to uni in spite of wanting to early on money seemed such an obstacle but it in all likelihood saved me from indoctrination and dogma. Which brings me to Marx, no I think we need an entirely new kind of revolution.

[Birdy77]

Hello Q.Ball,

It's scary how decades fly by like that, one minute you're 30, the next ...

I think you might be quite interested in a long-running thread in the Depression forum called "Is depression a natural reaction to an insane world?"

I hope you can make some meaningful connections here Q.Ball, to counteract some of your feelings of social isolation.

🌻birdy

[Zonnekp]

Hi Q.Ball,

Sorry to hear you lost 20 years to depression and anxiety. Welcome to the forum, most of us are human.

ZonnekP