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The only people who are spared from this deterioration are those who have managed to find hobbies that bring sustainable contentedness. Ones that are not prone to burning out.

And on this topic, we should understand that it is not normal to become so desensitized. Not in a million years could our ancestors become so apathetic as we do. But we have technology, technology that allows us to go far beyond our natural means in the search of pleasure.

In a videogame you can be a hero who saves the world, or a general leading an army into battle, an Emperor or King ruling over vast land, a soldier fighting in great battles, a builder who creates his own estate, the list goes on.

You can do many many activities that would be reserved for a once-in-a-lifetime event as if they were just daily occurrences. You're a soldier in Stalingrad who can experience the battle any time you so please. The significance wanes and the pleasure decreases as the novelty wears off.

Or another epidemic, pornography. In a single session you can see more naked women than an Emperor of Rome could in his entire life. Not only that, but you can find material to fulfill each and every desire you have or create. It is an absolutely certainly, unless you abstained from pornography all your life, that you will have seen more naked bodies than ALL of your direct ancestors combined.

Not only that, but you can edge to the porn, and to many different girls at once. Ever had a dozen or more tabs open of porn? Your unconscious brain can't differentiate the screen from reality. From your brain's view, you are having sex with a new woman every 30 seconds, before you finally find one you want to finish with.

Real life will never, ever compare to that experience. Your dopamine reward system is fried because of this, which is exactly why it's promoted everywhere. To make you docile.

Men historically have fought and conquered to gain land, women, glory, wealth, etc etc. What does any of this matter, when we already have greater wealth than medieval kings, women enough to outdo all our ancestors combined, glory in our many (digital) conquests, and land as far as the eye can see in our (digital) realms?

Real life cannot compare. It will never compare so stop trying to mesh them together. You must pick a side. The many people in the OP are doomed to a life of digital slavery, because of what I mentioned in these posts. Do you want to be like them?