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The problem with the other things is that poverty porn might make some people depressed to fit in and not be targeted as a person with resources so ideally I think you want to hang around the middle class. But I don't think that would solve the depression on its own.
Thus I introduce two new solutions.
Conspiracy theories are bad because whilst they offer some concrete solutions through simplified problems (which is a good distraction to the moderately high iq person, but maybe lacking when you start questioning things), they usually don't offer a catharsis. The constant fear mongering that the enemy is out to get you and we're all fighting to the death and it's not gonna be easy we're not gonna be okay buy our supplements. I think eventually this sort of makes you go insane.
So what about video games.
In a video game world assuming you take the game world seriously, you can become very strong and happy in. You don't need to remember the real world, you don't have to care about anything but in the game which is usually a lot more simpler and fair than reality. In theory by playing a video game you should be able to eventually suppress or distract yourself from depression etc, but I'm not sure those neuronal connections will actually weaken so eventually when you run out of content the thoughts will come back etc. So in theory it's not actually a longterm solution but in theory it's a very good distraction if you have a game that is decently strategic and highly educational or stimulating.
You really have to spend years locked inside a video game world to forget about reality and become happy but this is impossible and probably damaging. Getting stronger in the video game if it educates you might be good but you have to be totally immersed and google searching shit constantly and writing stuff down might break that. Over several decades you might be able to accumulate several thousand hours of gaming time which could alleviate the depression through extreme immersion in a fairer world but even in this ideal situation could the brain really forget about reality when your life is not on the line in the game you would have to play a seriously important to you game for that to happen i.e. a game where your money is on the line or the fate of a second world. The writing would have to be so absurdly good and suspenseful you'd have to care about every character, every plot point would have to be totally novel, all the while strengthening you irl somehow I just don't think the brain is gonna care, it's more into a power saving type shit. A lot of information won't be practically useful so we ignore it. And in terms of resources gained in the game world, the brain won't accept that as legal tender because it can't be taken into reality so yeah most likely the brain wouldn't notice that and those connections would not be made. But they do give you dopamine so I'd put it on par with basically something like food. But is food really going to cure depression when most of us have enough of it and it doesn't seem to be getting us laid. Assuming it does have some real world value maybe from selling it quite possibly.
So there's really no hope in theory.
Thus I introduce two new solutions.
Conspiracy theories are bad because whilst they offer some concrete solutions through simplified problems (which is a good distraction to the moderately high iq person, but maybe lacking when you start questioning things), they usually don't offer a catharsis. The constant fear mongering that the enemy is out to get you and we're all fighting to the death and it's not gonna be easy we're not gonna be okay buy our supplements. I think eventually this sort of makes you go insane.
So what about video games.
In a video game world assuming you take the game world seriously, you can become very strong and happy in. You don't need to remember the real world, you don't have to care about anything but in the game which is usually a lot more simpler and fair than reality. In theory by playing a video game you should be able to eventually suppress or distract yourself from depression etc, but I'm not sure those neuronal connections will actually weaken so eventually when you run out of content the thoughts will come back etc. So in theory it's not actually a longterm solution but in theory it's a very good distraction if you have a game that is decently strategic and highly educational or stimulating.
You really have to spend years locked inside a video game world to forget about reality and become happy but this is impossible and probably damaging. Getting stronger in the video game if it educates you might be good but you have to be totally immersed and google searching shit constantly and writing stuff down might break that. Over several decades you might be able to accumulate several thousand hours of gaming time which could alleviate the depression through extreme immersion in a fairer world but even in this ideal situation could the brain really forget about reality when your life is not on the line in the game you would have to play a seriously important to you game for that to happen i.e. a game where your money is on the line or the fate of a second world. The writing would have to be so absurdly good and suspenseful you'd have to care about every character, every plot point would have to be totally novel, all the while strengthening you irl somehow I just don't think the brain is gonna care, it's more into a power saving type shit. A lot of information won't be practically useful so we ignore it. And in terms of resources gained in the game world, the brain won't accept that as legal tender because it can't be taken into reality so yeah most likely the brain wouldn't notice that and those connections would not be made. But they do give you dopamine so I'd put it on par with basically something like food. But is food really going to cure depression when most of us have enough of it and it doesn't seem to be getting us laid. Assuming it does have some real world value maybe from selling it quite possibly.
So there's really no hope in theory.
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