Oi, without liberal democracy and the Enlightenment you’d still be farming your own plot of land with your family in a small, tight-nit fiefdom or learning to master a craft as part of a guild and ultimately having a sense of place and purpose. Thank your lucky stars you get to be a rootless cosmopolitan working in a sterile office staring at screens for 8 hours a day and making meaningless small talk with your co-workers who you hate.
“progress”
But I don’t work in a sterile office
So I didn’t dream that I saw this post.
Sadly not
Yeah I’ve avoided working in an office for five years and im about to avoid it for the rest of my life. Go be a farmer if you can narrow your seemingly boring life down to this description
OP totally isn’t projecting.
“Wagecuck”
“progress” in quotes LOL.
Yeah, this is progress. Our quality of life is exponentially higher than what it was even just fifty or a hundred years ago, let alone longer.
If you hate working an office job, do a trade. Or educate yourself and gain the necessary skills to do whatever you want in life.
How exactly is our quality of life better? We live longer but that doesn’t mean we live better. We live hooked up to machines 24/7 feeding us filth and rubbish that rots our brain and attention span, shovelling mounts of processed food and junk into our mouths, going from home to car to work and back again in a monotone and endless cycle. We have more obesity, more diabetes, more suicide, more depression, more burn-outs,…. than any generation before us.
More stuff doesn’t mean a better life. It just means more clutter clogging up the meaningful things in our lives.
> Not having to worry about a simple virus killing us at any given moment or never properly recovering from a broken leg.
> Having access to high caloric food at our finger tips at any time of the day versus worrying about our crops failing during the limited season or our livestock dying from disease.
> Having instant access to almost all of the entire knowledge in the known world in our pocket.
> Having a permanent dwelling with its own customized climate and artificial lighting.
> Where going out in or sleep in the outdoors is a novelty rather than a constant distressing reality.
> Having a myriad of transportation methods that cuts travel time into a fraction of the time that it would otherwise take on foot or even on horseback.
> Having the ability to view wild animals for amusement rather than worry about them devouring us or our children in our sleep.
> Having the ability to communicate with people across the globe at the touch of a button.
> Having access to fresh water and an indoor sanitation system.
But because we have an overabundance rather than a paucity; because we sometimes choose to work mundane, or unfulfilling, but still rather easy jobs; and because we sometimes choose to spend our copious amount of leisure time with mindless and frivolous entertainment we must have it so rough. Modernity is just so horrible. Evidently human progress is now just a new form of human bondage.
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