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>>12304717
Yeah I agree, I expressed myself in a very materialistic way and I actually think that what society lacks today the most, and the biggest cause of unhappiness, is the lack of meaning, of "myth". In a cosmopolitian multicultural society we also lack roots and have lost the sense of community and kindred, we have lost what many psychologists like Jung argued were some of the pillars of meaning and happiness, and in the end of creativity, productivity and excellence. Our unhappiness is not born out of our hardships but out of them not having a place in our world view, if a hardship fits your inner mythos then it can be a blessing that gives rise to your innate heroism, in this sense many people can't find any sense in modern society so the hardships, despite not being very brutal, are very hard to endure. In the past, a man could be a slave but if he lived (and truly believed) by the christian myth he could be estoic and content in that his suffering would pay off in the end, in a way he was a martyr and in his disgrace favored by God. A war was a blessing by those men who lived by a divine warrior mythos, they seeked war and warring despite knowing it could kill them, there was also an instinctual fulfillment in this regard. Today we are better off than those slaves in a material sense, but the average worker knows that he is, and will remain, just an overworked underdog with no inner meaning to his life, we have lost all sense to our lives, we live just to consume, and our society goes nowhere, and this is what truly makes us miserable.