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This is our great war, this is our great depression!

‘Babies’ was the last show I binged on Netflix. The show is a docuseries that follows 15 babies for the first year of their lives. The show follows eminent scientist studying these babies, trying to understand what goes into being a baby. For everyone looking to watch something wholesome, I recommend ‘Babies’.



It shows how even the minutest change in a baby’s environment makes the biggest impact on how it grows into a person. The world we live in today is a very unnatural one. We have concrete jungles instead of trees, we have cars and planes and ships to take us places, we have sanitised even the most unreachable corners of our houses. Some parents coddle their children until they’re teenagers and some stop coddling as soon as they learn to walk and talk. Some teach their kids everything they know and some let their kids learn on their own. Each of these ways has its own pros and cons. 


Society has changed so fast that not just babies, every age group is still playing catchup with the new complex mental and emotional problems that have come with the new world order. Some people grow up unable to express their emotions in a healthy way and some other lash out and become evil villains like Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Like Tyler Durden says “Our great war is a spiritual one, our great depression is our lives”, we the middle children of history have to fight a war, against generations of emotionally and mentally damaged people. Our ancestors had their wars and economies to worry about, we have only ourselves to worry about. 


Our artificial environment and all our securities have taken away the need for developing immune systems and instincts that were once necessary and have shifted the focus on the need to repair and develop our emotional and mental health. I wonder if the world will slow down enough to let people catch up. I wonder what sacrifices its gonna take humanity to achieve it. Most of all I wonder if humans will unite against this spiritual war and help each other long enough to achieve it. 
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