Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Yes. I find it quite decadent that in a period of affluence and plenty, suddenly half the population is "depressed" or has some kind of other "disease". Just (wo)man up, sheesh.

A pathological alienation is the necessary price to be paid for material affluence. The proper question is not why so many people are disaffected by consumerist materialism, but why it isn't a much greater percentage than it is.