For me, a jarring aspect of the US is the pharmaceutical solution to performance and attention difficulties. Like yes, this person who is suffering and cannot concentrate on their daily tasks, needs to be medicated in order to maintain a ‘normal life.’
What is a normal life anyway? You sit in a car for 45 minutes to 1 hour each day, and then sit in your cubical or office for 8 hours a day, then you go home and sit numbing your brain as you are too exhausted to do anything else since you just fried your brain with blue lights, Fluorescent lights, and mindless corporate dribble.
Why is someone who struggles with that lifestyle; a low performer, a distraction, antsy, annoying, inattentive?
Corporations and the healthcare industrial complex, would rather give people literal amphetamines and ruin their long term brain function than adjust the working conditions so it’s more enriching and less stationary.
Fucking over the short term profit world, and this corporate hell. How do I escape without putting a bullet into my head?