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This is my take as well. A related problem is the idea of control. If you feel you have no control over a situation, then action feels meaningless. The book "L

This is my take as well. A related problem is the idea of control. If you feel you have no control over a situation, then action feels meaningless. The book "Lab Rats" explains this phenomenon very well. In fact, apparently, the way you make a rat depressed in a lab study is to constantly change small aspects of its environment, preventing it from ever feeling stable and comfortable. I wonder if the upheaval in modern social life resulting from things like the rapid changes brought on by capitalism and information technology are a contributor to this widespread feeling.

marssaxman 4y ago
The never-ending parade of software "updates", and the constant chaos of web-based services, has killed much of the joy I used to feel when working with computers. There's no real point actually learning the system deeply anymore, because they just keep changing it out from under you, and you can't really stop them. I will never buy a Tesla, with that big screen controlling everything, which the true owners of the vehicle keep on reprogramming from afar! At least you can count on an older car to keep on functioning in the same way you're used to, from one day to the next.