Aaron Swartz died 11 years ago today
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Tim Berners Lee said it best, "Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep."
> As George Scialabba put it, “acute depression does not feel like falling ill, it feels like being tortured … the pain is not localized; it runs along every nerve, an unconsuming fire. … Even though one knows better, one cannot believe that it will ever end, or that anyone else has ever felt anything like it.”
> The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximize happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression causes nearly half of all disability, it affects one in six, and explains more current unhappiness than poverty.
Really now? So it's somehow more of a problem for happiness than over 1 billion people still living in grinding poverty worldwide, or for health than the numerous endemic diseases, many treatable, that kill millions each year and the of millions of hideously dangerous jobs still done daily by hundreds of millions of people, possibly billions?
Color me dubious of what seems like a very bubbled analysis of specific causes for problems in the world. Not to take a single thing away from Aaron Schwartz or the problems he was put through, but in material ,circumstantial terms, there are literally billions of people in the world who live lives far worse than his ever was in material terms.
Many people have many more hardships than I do, but it doesn't mean they feel anywhere near as unhappy as I do.
I don't know where to begin trying to explain it so I'm not even gonna try.
It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.
I've faced serious hardships and lived terrible events. I've also enjoyed periods of living in great locations with every material thing I desired.
I felt MUCH happier during the society-accepted hardships than the latter.
>It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.
The only way by which you can get people to sympathize with your beliefs is by having them understand them, and the only way by which people might come to agree with you is if they do exactly that: ask questions out loud and debate the matter. Nothing should be outside that.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10410604/#:~:te....
Yes, but whether millions of the people in poverty are unhappy or decently happy in their daily lives, the condition of being extremely poor itself still often kills, and in much greater numbers than depression does, regardless of how ugly the latter feels to the person suffering it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/01/17/aaron-swa...
It reminds me of operation pipe dreams and this vile person
Duh. They are about him. Want to discuss others, then start discussions about others. This ain't rocket surgery; Be the change you want to see, but stay on topic.