I don’t think the depression is global, just western. People in western/westernized countries just don’t seem to get the cause and effect of glorifying selfishness in their culture, and having a culture of selfish people.

It’s like with any other kind of maladaptive evil. They want to be able to be rewarded for being exploitive and cretinous, but others aren’t supposed to exploit or mistreat them. They don’t see how they are part of the problem.