There are a lot of humans in the world, maybe we just need to force people together again from time to time instead of indulging what is a potentially growing number of people being unable to engage with other humans across a range of real-world situations for lack of training.
I'd like to push back against the anti-medication sentiment in this comment because depression is not the most clearly understood mental condition and for many people, medication can be a life-saving intervention.
I wonder, were you being ironic? It seems both of these things sound pretty decent. There are millions of people that treat depression with drugs and horniness with porn... I can't say I see any problems with either.
all of which work quite fine en masse, for more than a century
Yeah, there's thankfully no societal consequence of mass drug use or porn addiction.
I think mass drug use and porn consumption have been going on way longer than a century, and society has only been getting better and better. The Sumerians were doing opium, for example.
The general ability to retreat from human interactions is an awful lot stronger than even 50 years ago.