If any other population group was approaching a 50% suicide rate, the entire group should be detained and psychiatrically evaluated and any found to be at risk should be institutionalized.
You’re thinking like a public health advocate—that overall mental health matters, and we ought to try to maximize it.
Cultural steering is difficult, although over the past two generations, the left as managed to influence our cultural drift strongly.
We need something that captures imaginations strongly and for a long time. Maybe we need a mystery. Q! Q! Q!
Perhaps. Certainly, Hollywood isn’t going to be much help.