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My personal opinion is that there is a far higher rate of neurosis in almost all people now. There is clear evidence from when I grew up in the 90s and early 20
by bowsamic 3y ago
My personal opinion is that there is a far higher rate of neurosis in almost all people now. There is clear evidence from when I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s that there were simply more times where people "bummed about", even very successful people. People drank more and they worried less.
IMO, Pandora's box has been opened. Now humans are hyper-aware about the possibilities to optimise their life. They know they could be working out, they could be calorie counting, they could be learning a new language, they could be sorting out their investments. But, it's impossible to forget this. Once you are infected and connected, you can't return to not taking care of things. Once you have been made aware of the problem, your excuse of ignorance is gone, and you are forever going to be making the explicit decision to not solve your problems.
Naturally, this increased neurosis, and lack of ability to let go, is a huge stop on the kind of letting go required for sex. Basically all people now prefer to be alone or in a comfortable space, sorting out their own problems in life.
- badpun 3y ago> IMO, Pandora's box has been opened. Now humans are hyper-aware about the possibilities to optimise their life Funnily enough, if you read Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", his impression of Americans back then (around 1830) was that they're very serious and solemn, because they're aware of how much of their fate is in their hands, and want to work as hard at it as they can. Actually, his point was that people in the US overestimated their agency, as given how many people were working really hard, there were realitvely few who made it into riches that everyone was after.
- bowsamic 3y agoI think it happened first in the US and the ideology was spread everywhere else via their media and the internet