Discussion Nature of human suffering post-war

[Memento Mori]

In current year is the nature of collective human suffering something that leans more towards the psycho-spiritual rather than the physical compared to ages past?

Material prosperity and human development (in all countries but especially in the West) has greatly risen since industrialization but in place of that it seems like most people's problems primarily lie within the domain of the metaphysical?

 

[Abhorrence]

humans adapt so when baseline suffering drops smaller discomforts feel larger

 

[Schwarzwald]

We took away the struggle, claimed to have killed God, and promised a pill for every internal misstep. We convinced ourselves we were masters of the universe because we mapped the genome, but all we really did was build a high tech Disney where people are still treated like serfs just with better toys and a honeypot of distractions.

It’s the cocaine mouse problem. The mouse needs the wheel of real struggle to stay human, but modernity gave it the drug instead. Most people today are just inheritors who accept the slop they’re fed, then spend their lives complaining to the chefs from the dinner table instead of building their own unique persona.

We aren't just leaning toward spiritual suffering, we’ve manufactured it by stripping away the reality of a meaningful life and leaving the disenfranchised with nothing but a hollow, metaphorical image of God.

But hey, another wave of young Americans can possible go die in the desert with this new middle eastern war. We are calling it operation "Epic Fury"
Hell yea!
Very Epic!
Much Fury!

 

[Sovereign]

In current year is the nature of collective human suffering something that leans more towards the psycho-spiritual rather than the physical compared to ages past?

Material prosperity and human development (in all countries but especially in the West) has greatly risen since industrialization but in place of that it seems like most people's problems primarily lie within the domain of the metaphysical?

Religion has always been an integral component of society and the individual, because it gives one an idea that something is better then the current circumstance; that this reality isn't all there is.

Back then, material resources were hard to create in abundance, with the industrial revolution is was possible to create products a quicker rates, giving time, labor and opportunity to individuals, but when that was subverted by greed and control into the hands of few men and or groups. We didn't get to reap the benefits, I can't remember his name but the idea goes that for that era the material concept and attitude of history and life was more precedent or becoming more and more wide spread; the point? The attitude towards existence was that whatsoever is observable and can be quantified and or observed within a physical framework, whether to the tiniest atom or the grandest of social issues, could be solved or viewed through material lens. Spirit has mainly been understood via institutions, to have had it otherwise is viewed unfavorably.