Fragile systems - fairly raw brain dump

I was reading something talking about if we're in a utopia now, and someone pointing out the rates of depression/suicide/self harm as signs that we're not. We've got a lot more stuff, some of which makes our lives *way* better than in previous eras. The invisible thing we're living with now, though, is tension, stress and speed. I think a default these days, especially now when the economy is bad is that people are loaded all the way to the top.

( Brain dump past cut )