Quote:Suicide rates among Gen Z adults have unnaturally increased in the U.S. over the past ten years according to new figures.

Axios Notes that there has been a 16.4 percent increase in suicides among the demographic between 2014-2024.

The locations where the rise is most prominent, the report notes are in the South and the Midwest, with black and Hispanic men, accounting for a huge 85 percent of the increase.

A Stateline analysis of data also shows that Georgia experienced the largest increase in suicide rates over the past decade, among 18 to 27-year-olds, with the state’s suicide rate in the age group increasing by a massive 64.9 percent.

North Carolina and Texas both saw a 41 percent increase in suicide rates, while Alabama had a 39 percent spike, and Ohio a 37 percent increase.

Alaska recorded the highest suicide rate among Gen Z, standing at 49 percent per 100,000 people, an increase of more than a third since 2014.



Suicide became the second-highest cause of death among young Hispanics over these years, surpassing homicide. And for young Asians, suicide became the number one cause of death.

Stateline notes that while men are far more likely to take their own lives, the rate for suicide among women has shot up “from about one-fifth of the rate for men to one-fourth in 2024.”

The report quotes American University professor Dave Marcotte, who notes that suicide rates among all age groups had been steadily falling for decades before beginning to rise in again in 2000.

Interestingly, while suicide rates for middle-aged people soon began to fall again, the rates among young people have just continued to increase.

Marcotte explained, “There’s likely no one magic answer to this. Future job prospects for this generation are not what they were for older generations. Today’s generation is not guaranteed a position in society that’s better than their parents. That’s one hypothesis.”

Psychology professor at San Diego State University Jean Twenge suggests that the huge uptake of social media is a likely factor, with those born after 1995 having become adults when smartphones became ubiquitous.

Quote:Sigmund Freud’s concept of the death urge—or Thanatos (Greek: θάνατος (thánatos) → death, dying, mortality)—is one of his more unsettling and controversial ideas. He introduced it formally in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), when he began questioning why humans seemed driven not only toward pleasure and self-preservation (Eros), but also toward destruction, repetition, and ultimately death.

Freud noticed that many behaviors couldn’t be explained by his earlier “pleasure principle” alone. Soldiers returning from war, for instance, repeatedly relived traumatic experiences through dreams. He saw this as evidence of a deeper compulsion—something beyond pleasure, perhaps even contrary to it.

This led him to theorize that life itself harbored an innate tendency to return to an earlier, inorganic state—a kind of homeward pull towards death. He framed this as a biological and psychological drive: Thanatos, the death instinct, balancing Eros, the life instinct.

Freud described this instinct as, “An urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things.” In short, every living organism—by its very constitution—seeks to return to a lifeless equilibrium. The life force (Eros) builds, binds, and preserves; the death force (Thanatos) breaks down, undoes, and dissolves. In human terms, this manifests as aggression, self-destructive habits, and the repetition of harmful patterns:

• Aggression: The death drive projected outward becomes violence or hostility towards others.
  
• Self-destruction: Turned inward, it becomes depression, guilt, or suicidal behavior.
  
• Repetition compulsion: The unconscious urge to repeat painful or destructive experiences—a hallmark of trauma.
  

Freud’s death instinct runs counter to the optimistic view of progress and self-improvement that colored most Western psychology. It suggests that humanity’s worst impulses are not social aberrations, but intrinsic to the species—an inbuilt counterweight to creation and love.

It seems that Thanatos explains Snowflake behavior, or what is widely called Woke. The movement on the whole is self-destructive, repetitious, and insanely aggressive. It’s all about destroying “normalcy,” wrecking the social impulse to law and order, and eradicating anything that is beautiful or joyful.

One look at the Wokians and it’s clear they have no concept of joy or beauty. Wokian art is hideous, while at the same time they seek to destroy humanity’s creative legacy. They have no sense of humor, because they can’t laugh—either at themselves or anyone else.

Homosexuality is fundamentally a denial of creation and joy, which are normal impulses in humans. Related to this is the maniacal focus on abortion, severe body modification, and self-injury. Transsexuality is a profound urge to defile one’s body, creating a freakish representation of reality.

The whole “climate change” movement is clearly little more than a death wish for our species, based on a fundamental hatred of Nature and cyclical time. Despite a profound lack of evidence in their assertions, they cling to the possibility of mass death as humanity is forced back into the Stone Age. This manifests itself as a war on hydrocarbons, which fuel humanity’s rapid progress over the last three centuries.

Wokianism is essentially a self-destructive cult. They modify their bodies and deny their very natures, so that society at large will shun them, thus fulfilling their desire to be victims. And when society refuses to play by their rules, they lash out with violence, hoping for backlash to justify their empty existence and burning desire to be hated and reviled.

Wokianism is fundamentally a severe mental illness. It is a vicious circle of hating one’s self, defiling one’s self, then blaming everyone else for being disgusted and sickened by their gruesome visages. Being shunned in turn feeds into their warped need to be hated, thus justifying their self-loathing.

At a child’s level, it is analogous to annoying someone until they finally lash out, so that the child can run crying to momma, claiming to be the victim, thus getting the attention he craves.

My guess is Wokianism is a pathology rooted in parental indifference. Western parents today are endlessly distracted, ignoring their children in pursuit of instant gratification. The child eventually acts out to get any attention and validation from the parents, even if it’s negative. After years of negative attention from the parents, the child ultimately gets lost in a maze of depression, self-hatred, and violence, thinking they are unworthy of normal love and joy.

Later, strange hair colors, tattoos, facial piercings, and “transgenderism” become the adult version of acting out and seeking any attention and validation they can get. They do everything possible to be rejected, which feeds back into their psychosis. They are so lost in their victimhood that they fail to see they are the cause of their own rejection.

In their desperation to be accepted by anyone, Wokians are easy targets for quasi-religious movements that manipulate psychopathology to form armies of disaffected and disenfranchised human husks. The Wokians are given positive reinforcement for anti-social behavior, and ultimately they become weaponized.

I don’t think there’s any way to repair the damage. One might think psychology would be an answer, but to my mind that is asking a weapon to repair the injury it made. I’m no psychiatrist, but I have seen damaged people driven to ultimate self-destruction by the psychoactive drugs freely dispensed by clinical practitioners. Obviously, a counter-productive outcome.


The problem with the Wokian cult is it is constantly reinforced through mass media, NGO networks, and nefarious individuals who feed off the Thanatos. Until these elements can be eliminated, the Wokians will continue to recruit the damaged souls they create. And they can only recruit, since they can not and will not reproduce.

The most effective solution is to prevent any more damaged souls. Parents need to put down the gee-gaws, turn off the TeeVee, and start paying a lot more attention to their children.

The biggest issue I see today is that we are almost all damaged goods, to one extent or another. Even us old geezers have been exposed to mass media our entire lives, and most of us have no idea how deep the damage goes.

It will require extraordinary self-examination to repair our damage, and a profound act of will to break free of blinky lights in a box and return to a fundamentally healthy way of life. The habit of plunking down in front of the Tube is an addiction as powerful as any drug.

There’s still hope. Cultures here in Southeast Asia are still relatively family-centric, with one parent always at home. In the West, though, things are dangerously dysfunctional. It will take a concerted and unified effort to pull out of the death cult spiral.

In the end, the Marxist/Progressives (Wokians) are lacking a nurturing home life and positive attention from parents, so they turn to government and public institutions to fill that void. The need is so strong that they will destroy civilization to get the warm fuzzies they so desperately crave.

Now I’m just playing armchair psychiatrist here, and I’m not a particular fan of Freud, but in this case the diagnosis seems to be spot on. It also fits the much older yin-yang dichotomy of the human spirit and the Universe in general.

In the final analysis, turn off the box and give the kids a squeeze. Praise them for creative achievements, rather than scold them for destructive behavior. Most importantly, return to the classic definition of “community” as being those people physically around you, and not far-flung strangers whose provenance is uncertain.

Love conquers all.

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For our cinematic dramatization on theme, I submit Ingmar Bergman’s brilliant The Seventh Seal (1957). A medieval knight confronts Death over a game of chess during the Black Plague, finding the Grim Reaper to be both an adversary and a comfort. By far one of Max von Sydow’s best performances. This one is high cinema at its finest. Pair it with Apocalypse Now (1979) for an equally poignant psychological portrait of the yin-yang principle.