Do you mean that people are responsible for their own (un)happiness and it's not the system's fault or responsibility to cater for that? Are you suggesting suicide as a solution to unhappiness with a lifestyle you didn't choose and don't know how to change?!This isn't a crisis or modernity. People have been unhappy since the dawn of time.
Of course none of us chose to be born, but we each have the choice whether to keep living.
I mean people mistake modernity as the cause of unhappiness, and if you pay attention to history, it's easy to see that unhappiness predates modernity by millenia. Therefore, modernity (or capitalism) is not the primary cause of our shared despair. No. I'm saying it's obviously the better choice for most people to learn to cope with life. There's a lot one can get out of living, and complaining isn't a great help in our struggle.Do you mean that people are responsible for their own (un)happiness and it's not the system's fault or responsibility to cater for that?
Are you suggesting suicide as a solution to unhappiness with a lifestyle you didn't choose and don't know how to change?!
I'm not sure that the kind of unhappiness of the past, when we struggled for basic needs, can be compared with today's unhappiness with the modern consumerist lifestyle which is long past the state of survival. What would you attribute our shared despair to? A pre-deterministic human "nature"? What would you suggest that people who are unhappy do to help in our struggle?I mean people mistake modernity as the cause of unhappiness, and if you pay attention to history, it's easy to see that unhappiness predates modernity by millenia.
Therefore, modernity (or capitalism) is not the primary cause of our shared despair.
There's a lot one can get out of living, and complaining isn't a great help in our struggle.