Your retort starts unnecessarily abrasive (I'm not even American), but it has a lot of good arguments. But let me push back against something implied in your c

Your retort starts unnecessarily abrasive (I'm not even American), but it has a lot of good arguments. But let me push back against something implied in your comment: yes, comfort is the cause of many of our social problems, but it's not because we are weak and in the olden days people were willingly choosing pain over comfort. It is completely natural to choose the easy path. The point is that there was no easy path for most of human history. There was no grocery stores nor free healthcare. There was war, famine and wild beasts. More recently, there was no instantaneous world-wide connection with everybody nor Tinder. Our only choice was discomfort, so we as a species slowly made that better. So it is easy to create a "get a little uncomfortable" slogan, it would sell a lot of books and self-help classes, but it is not the simple trick no one has thought about before that you think it is. We are not weak, we have just created a comfortable world, and that has made us weak. We gotta lose one or the other, but in any case we are always missing something. Such is the human condition.