> It's funny, but people never seem to question if modern American life actually, you know, is good for mental health. Maybe people are mentally ill because the

> It's funny, but people never seem to question if modern American life actually, you know, is good for mental health. Maybe people are mentally ill because the world is super effing weird and hard to adjust to? To me this is self-evident. Our lives have become more and more comfortable physically, less challenging, less stressful. But from a mental perspective, we are doing FAR more deliberate, conscious effort than any of our ancestors. Emphasis on conscious. Being a hunter-gatherer surely required a lot of processing power, but over time we've adapted so that a lot of that effort is not conscious. And we don't seem to have a problem processing a heck of a lot of data unconsciously. It's this newfangled, forced-conscious processing that we are not adapted for, and is very stressful.