I have felt for a while that with the new technologies we could be working towards having an easier and happier life, but for some reason a lot of people don’t want it. Robots could help contribute to a 4 day work week and less hard physical labor. Instead, people want others to keep working their heads off and at the same time have more unemployment, rather than some sort of happy medium.
Drug addiction is partly a symptom of how unhappy people are. Some drug addiction is just using and easily getting addicted. Let’s go with the unhappiness in society for this paragraph. People are too stressed. Especially, in America, what the fuck?! For most people in the US life is like running on a constant treadmill, and then you get to step off for a few hours each day when you are pretty tired, to eat, brush your teeth and sleep. If you’re lucky you get some time to be with your family or pursue an interest, but part of your time at home is spent on cooking, cleaning, and doing chores.
If you are a kid, your parents are on that treadmill and so your life is not calm, and at school you have to worry about being liked and excepted and having friends and hopefully not teased or bullied.
I think people don’t feel safe enough anymore, safe in every way. The political environment adds to the feeling of not feeling safe.
Usually, I feel like society has to collapse to achieve greatness, because people have to make things hard, they can’t just go towards the better thing. A segment of the population only accepts change to move away from pain not to simply seek a better and easier life.
Out of the ashes.