1 Too much. But I wonder if there is a corrolation between the age of the poster and his response to the article. I'm willing to bet that as one gets older, one is more likely to see the world as "going to hell in a handbasket," as my grandfather's generation used to say. It may simply reflect a realization that the world is increasingly out of one's control. for those who would like to interject at this point that it never was in any generation's control, you have hit on another, not mutually exclusive hypothesis. As martin Se3ligman has taught us, realism is associated with depression. As we get older, we lose the uhnreflective enthusiasm of youth. We become more realistic. We notice that our generation didn't fix everything, and reflect, realistically, that the next one doesn't have the skills or even the will to do so, like we thought we did. And that can lead to depression. It may even lead to a "separate peace."