theory: depression, schizophrenia, suicidal tendencies are an evolved trait

[Naofumi]

I think that when a man is basically done with life, he starts to go visibly insane, get depressed, and try killing himself so that his community will come in and give him some help. There's actually a few reasons why they would do this.
1. It's better to help a community member so that he can increase the productivity and strength of the tribe than keep all the resources and women to yourself.
2. It's a way of virtue signalling for everyone to give him some help

Thus, a man can get some pity sex, pity children, and some food etc just so he stays alive and helps the tribe out.

Now obviously in a situation where resources are scarce and intertribal conflicts not being a thing (so you can't just help your trible get some female slaves) this helps still. Rather than the man getting complacent and just being a nice guy, he will start to hate society and plan a mass murder or rape, capturing women etc, manipulating them darkly. They basically get a slightly higher iq from the depression in all likelihood and will be able to see through to the truth of society. They will begin to stop working as hard and start thinking more and lazing around, stealing whatever they can and acting selfishly for this is really the last gasp for them to get their seed out.

Well what about tribes that have no mental illness or loyalty problems, won't they be more productive. Well, in theory yes it is true that people who just work to death for the state and have no cares might contribute more as long as they aren't starving. And the women could just go to all the chads, but again at least they get some food. Imagine large portions of your population just starving to death. The suicidal tendencies are just a way of announcing that you need some food and that it is very serious to get through the thick skulls of the more better off. The people that weren't depressed (constantly paranoid about their situation, feeling bad all the time) and didn't put on as much of a show got less resources and probably starved when things got rough.

Now, what about in a capitalist society what happens then. Notice how they only help you if you are mentally ill, that's basically the only time they take you seriously because it means you've reached the suicide threshold where your lost productivity begins to matter to the state.

So it's actually almost inevitable that a man who's getting no sex or resources begins to become mentally ill and suicidal.

Now, if you don't want to become such you need the antidote to it all which is I believe some level of imagined success. You have to pretend you are already successful and it's very obvious. I.e. begin to associate struggle with success and wealth around the corner through motivational music etc with lots of orchestral violin solos and war drums and stepping around and hollering plus happy high pitched victorious shrills. Another way to not become mentally ill is perhaps to engage with prostitutes or similar, it depends on how critical you are though whether or not you can actually believe fully in the sexual success illusion or musical illusion. Another way is to get flirtatious looks at the bar from women from having a ripped body maybe that could work. Another way is to get high grades in school or iq assessments, this might keep the suicide away although you might not care. Money could also help again but that's hard to get. Another way is to get social capital or views, wherein you now possess a temporary possibly monetizable audience. Another way is to get some friends too you can call upon for help, for resources. All of this helps keep people alive it's not just about improving your life situation.

 

[Naofumi]

The problem is whether or not you believe in greater rewards or greater success rate, the danger sense gets sort of fucked. So I think the best strategy might be to stay away from social media where other people are depicted to have much more resources than you. Stay around poor people and starving people to increase your happiness and prevent you from getting depressed to beg for resources as others clearly will not give you anything.

 

[Naofumi]

The irony in that is that most of the content produced of decent quality is made by ultra wealthy superstars and producers and you literally see all that shit. Only exception is in fiction where ironically there's usually always massive displays of wealth.

 

[Foidkiller]

It's funny, I have zero suicidal ideation today. I used to compulsively imagine myself getting harmed in various ways, including fully visualizing the entire proccess of me picking up a gun and shooting myself up the mouth palate, but I genuinely feel a mental block from carrying this out now in my imagination. Because I don't want to die lol. I think, at the end of the day, we have to realize that our genes are programmed for species-wide survival first, and then survival of the individual, so if you feel like you are a burden especially, and that nobody needs you, then you start thinking about removing yourself as another mouth to feed.
You mention whether tribes without mental illnesses can be more productive, I believe that's just cold adaption vs sub-sarahan adaption, which does pretty much mean evolution, but what I'm saying is, obviously if you're forced to pile up as many resources as possible for winter, and stay as close to your community as you can so as to not freeze or starve outside in the barren snowland, there will be more complicated mechanisms in place for enhancing cohesion of the tribe and yes this would include being more expressive about your worries and troubles.
You talking about capitalism all of a sudden gave me PTSD of how certain philosophers write something intelligent just to attach "and therefore communism" at the end, really the reason such evolved human traits, as you've laid out, are in danger today is because of woke/feminism, and that is, ultimately, marxism. Capitalism in it's purest form gives the greatest incentives and rewards toward straight white men, obviously. Therefore, people automatically start to care about this very valuable (by natural law) demographic, we are the ones who will save their asses from any problem that exists in the universe, that is of course until it is too late and the jews completely subvert everything, but it's besides the point. When you have the government boot to steal the white man's taxes, suddenly he becomes not all that important, and nobody gives a crap about him, to the point he is absolutely miserable and depressed, there is a deep, sometimes subconscious (sublimated into self-directed harmful activities) desire to take matters into one's own hands and change things, no wonder.