After the economic chaos of the 1970s, it was decided that the United States and Britain had become too collective. This collectively tilted economy sired a collectively tilted people: monkey-suited Corporation Man and his children, the hippies. “Economics are the method: The object is to change the soul.” And that’s precisely what happened. In the United States rates of anxiety and depression in adolescents are rising. Despite widespread adoption of antidepressants since the 1980s, the United States’ suicide rate rose by 24 percent between 1999 and 2014, according to the C.D.C.

Source: New York Times August 24, 2018 09:00 UTC