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	Listening to 'Depression'

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9-14-2007 7:41 AM

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depression, existentialism, medication, unhappiness

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3e021808-4c28-437d-af85-df2ec013d66a/6E823A57-9069-4C07-AD8D-94435F974FDA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm" href="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.philosophicalsociety.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm">The notion that melancholy 
      can be expunged by a pill accords very nicely with the temper of the 
      times. In American society today there is little patience for solutions 
      which can't be easily quantified and brought to market.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm">Like so many other aspects of modern life, 
      euphoria-via-pill is expedient and hassle-free and efficacious (though by 
      no means inexpensive). One needn't look inward to figure out what might be wrong 
      or what it is one stands for in life. One needn't look at the 
      pathology of one's society, or see despondency as possibly 
      admitting of a range of solutions, not least of which is lifelong pursuit 
      of truth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm">What if sadness and emptiness are the mind's way of 
      saying that something is missing in oneself or in one's society? What if, 
      rather than awful symptoms needing to be killed, they are a siren call 
      to a more spiritual, decent, humane life?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Depression%20And%20The%20Threat%20Of%20Nonbeing.htm">People seek, in 
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