Considering the two wars were declared and waged with scant attention to their full costs, lawmakers add insult to injury by invoking budget concerns for the traumatic needs of actual warriors.
… “The real question is, why don’t we care anymore?”
Tag Archive: suicide
Links of interest: Suicide
There is a great injustice at the heart of the whole process of exploiting cheap labor to make the must-have googaws for the world’s affluent. Every suicide at a Chinese factory is an exclamation point at the end of that last sentence. Both the Chinese and international media know this, and so do Apple and HP and Dell and Foxconn’s top CEO, Terry Gou. It just doesn’t look good when your employees start jumping out of windows in steadily increasing numbers. It is a sign that something is very, very wrong in how humans are organizing themselves on this planet. We don’t want to think about it when we’re playing with our smart phones, or reading the new Wired app on our iPads, but it’s the truth, and it bears constant investigation.
Suicide in Japan (part 2): The Internet and media coverage
There have always been people who wish they were dead, or who have thoughts about voluntary death. But nobody used to be directly encouraged to die. In conventional media, if somebody wrote or said: “I want to die”, the most probable answer was: “Hold on, don’t die!” On the contrary, in the Internet, everybody feels free to write whatever they please under a false name. The moment somebody mentions the intention of committing suicide, original words appear immediately and make their way to the suicide candidate. Horrible words and expressions such as “you are worthless”, “you are dead”, “you don’t deserve to live”, “the world is better off without you” start to appear. … In the Internet’s post modern world, words loose their link with the person responsible for them. … One of the most popular pages for the prevention of suicides had to lower the rule that users only could participate for a maximum 30 minutes, in order to prevent negative emotions from expanding.
Suicide in Japan (part 1): The recession
Some cultural factors exacerbate the problem: lack of religious prohibition against suicide, reluctance to discuss mental health and stress-related problems, a literary tradition that romanticizes suicide, a view of suicide as an honorable act, a way of taking responsibility for failure, among other issues. The breakdown of family and social networks and the increasing isolation of individuals contribute to the problem.
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