Mental Health

Listening to a podcast recently about mental health got me to thinking, now I know I am no expert, but, perhaps there is a correlation between the expected peak of population in the world. Apparently the world population is due to peak in about 2040 a mere 35 years from now. My theory is that we are not that far removed genetically from our roots as hunter gatherers and that we are genetically inclined to operate in small, tight knit family groups separated from other groups by some distances with space and time to devote to the mere survival of our families and not over concerned with larger interaction with mass numbers of people. Where conflict arose primarily over food recourses. With the increase in population the inevitability of industrialization that followed along with urbanization have, I believe created pressures on us as humans that we have not been equipped to handle. Hence the ever increasing out of control mental illness, which it follows, is a symptom of population pressure. The worry of impending pandemics, natural disasters and wars and rumors of wars cannot help the situation. Maybe we are heading for a major crash of human culture, a reversion to the simple times genetically encoded into us may just be what the doctor orders, the doctor being the planet that is becoming sick from our appetites as well.

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