Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A divorce culture is a depressed culture

a working theory of mine, I could be wrong so go easy, I've been known to think out loud here a few times. Used to be you'd go to the pharmacy for your flu medicine or whatever and there might be a handful of people on line, just recently I went to shop at a Walgreen's and the parking lot was jam-packed as it always is, turns out many of them were on line to see the pharmacist, it looked like Ticketron for a minute, young and old, didn't matter. Our society is not whole imo, it's not really intact, emotional issues and baggage are the order of the day, unresolved issues, routine divorce, abortion an everyday occurence, ergo more problems. Now z would much rather see people take more natural routes to these things, a more holistic approach but I can't judge them either, people are tired of being tired, tired of being depressed, tired of whatever and so here's something, has a few side effects but let's try it. Z's point is a conservative society would be a better society, a healthier society, divorce being rare only when necessary, forgiveness, resolving issues for a change, abortion being more or less a relic of the past, families helping each other out in times of need instead of this one not talking to that one for 20 years...we ain't livin' right, and if it wasn't just cats and babies who slept right and never got depressed might there be less of a line at Walgreen's?

14 comments:

  1. You don't hear Republicans talking about family values like you used to, some people accused them of just using a catch phrase, but it really is the crux of so many problems today. A strong family unit makes such a difference in the lives of its members and it reaches out into the community, and so on and so forth. A trickle up sort of notion.

    Great post, Z!

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  2. The chemical imbalance, now the thing here is even if such exists and makes depression worse what is the root cause of much depression these days? Bishop Sheen, if he were alive today would probably put the blametag on sin but we've lost that sense. Abortion could well be the source of many a woman's depressed state but what shrink talks this way anymore? Sheen was fond of saying bad moral decisions and behavior, if unacknowledged over time, produce your classic neuroses but...you get the picture.

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  3. Great to see you online this morning Beth! One of the last Republicans to really push family values talk was Dan Quayle and he became the fodder for late-night humor. Used to be every other commercial on TV was for some car, now it's about pills, maybe we used to enjoy life more, dunno. The pill commercials make it sound like we wake up with these problems but I wonder if we're causing them ourselves. There are many reasons why I as a social conservative am against divorce in general (I'm not talking about the really hard cases here), not the least of which it is bad for your psyche. There is always a price to be paid down the line for liberalism.

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  4. Great to be here today, tax season is over, but there is a luncheon to go to at 1:00. I also indulged in a nice breakfast with my friend Nicole, got a chance to catch up on things with her.

    Liberalism's answer to problems is either to just walk away from them (i.e. abortion, divorce) or have the government take charge of it. No personal responsibility needed. The path of least resistance. One can see the attraction to it, like Satan leading you to do what you know in your heart is wrong, but it's easier and/or gives instant gratification.

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  5. Great insights Beth! Taking a break now and let's have your .02 on all the meanies out there in my second blog, maybe they're causing the nice people agita and that's why they're all at CVS.

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  6. I do think a positive attitude affects our health, so your ideas about why so many people feel they need so much medication certainly makes sense.

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  7. There wouldn't be a shorter line at Walgreens Z. Haven't you seen their rebate system?

    We routinely end up saving more than we actually spend over there.

    That's gotta be the draw my friend.

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  8. The thing with the sleep thing of which we've been hearing so much of late is people think they have the right to, or expect to get at least 8 full hours of uninterrupted and blissful sleep but for many of us our sleep is adequate but sketchy at best. My cuz and my bro often get only about 4-5 hours of sleep but they manage. Meredith Vieira takes that job over at the Today Show for the big bucks and then complains of sleep deprivation but imo money ain't always the most important factor in considering a job, is it right for you? It's like we've come expect life to be perfect and it ain't.

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  9. I don't think she's good over there and maybe Katie ain't good where she is now, maybe they should switch and go back to the old days. IMO Meredith was better over at "The View" although somebody still has to explain to me why everyone considers this show to be so important like a "Nightline" for the morning or something. Geez, if I got a full 8+ hours of uninterrupted sleep for the rest of my life I'd be known as a cat. The worst is when you haven't slept that great and light slowly begins to flood your room - dawn baby!! rise and shine.

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  10. Right on Beth, think positive and feel positive. First off most or at least many people drink to some extent so they can't really take these sleep aids 'cos of the warning so they really have a very limited usefulness, I mean which would you rather have in the evening, some Lunesta or a Hot Toddy? can't have both (decisions decisions). Someone joked to me the other day about that Lunesta commercial with the big butterfly floating through the room, he said it gave him the creeps like maybe the butterfly puts you to sleep with a needle and some chloroform, I mean what's up with the butterfly?

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  11. I'm hooked on Walgreen's myself soap, they even have sneakers and underwear now, I mean talk about your one-stop shopping and then you get some Planter's mixed nuts to go with your antidepressants, some ear plugs when the robin sings a little too loudly and too early in the morning...can't beat it.

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  12. What some young people are into! This woman says to me she sometimes gets drunk but then downs a Red Bull so, in her words, "you're drunk but you're not that drunk" (good to remember for work I guess) and this other dude goes he swallows an Advil before some heavy drinking so he doesn't get a hangover (ok, comatose is better?) and I'm like what kind of crap is this generation into?

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  13. We ain't livin' right Anon, have two modest drinks and you're relaxed and have that serence feeling, like somebody could call you a butthole and you wouldn't care, but have that extra one and you're psychoanalying your whole life ("oh why, oh why did I ever leave that job weighing peanuts at the Five & Ten? I coulda been manager there by now") and these people are popping Liquid-Gels and Monsters all at the same time? Hey, throw in some cough syrup while we're at it, oh they do that too.

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  14. Don't ya just hate it when you go to CVS and they have all the U-boats out and the workers are stocking all the shelves and you can't look at anything? I chuckle when I pass the latex aisle and there's some Trojan that goes by the name of Magnum, I mean who's kidding who here? (lol).

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