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Something Is Very Wrong With Modern Life - Arthur Brooks - #1109
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Is Suffering the Ultimate Meaning?
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Suffering is the ultimate meaning-making experience. Attempts to engineer away negative emotion are not just impossible but would kill what it means to be fully alive. [1] — Arthur Brooks "The most meaningful periods of people's lives are almost always their most painful ones. The modern world tries to engineer away suffering,…" 1:36:40
Happiness has three macronutrients: enjoyment (pleasure + people + memory), satisfaction (achieving goals through struggle), and meaning. It is meaning that has collapsed in modern society.
Happiness has three macronutrients: enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. Enjoyment and satisfaction are relatively intact in modern life. Meaning has collapsed — and that is the sole driver of the unhappiness crisis.
