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Why People in the West Are Chronically Unhappy
People living in the West, particularly in developed nations such as Japan, the United States of America and other highly advanced societies, are chronically unhappy because people have been told to follow false idols and the pursuit of happiness and an easier life.
Pursuing happiness is a false idol.
It leads to chronic unhappiness because, as human beings, we are not forged to be happy and content.
We are meant to be toiling away in the fields doing hard manual labour.
That’s why people go to the gym and engage in physical exercises.
Humans would have lifted and lowered weights in their pre-industrial environment, and those kinds of activities make people happy.
When humans live in concrete cities and don’t see sunlight or get to see the trees psychologically, they start to feel massively unhappy.
That’s why doing white-collar work in offices often leads to people suffering from unhappiness.
I am a writer, and I’m constantly surrounded by people who suffer from depression or some mental health disorder due to modern life, and being sat behind a desk is slowly killing them, causing them to feel unhappy.
