Is modern era comfortable, but empty?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Lately I have been thinking about the kind of lives that most people lead nowadays, and can’t help but thinking that we are living in such a way that is fundamentally incompatible with our nature.

Then that's a very silly way of thinking 

Nowadays most of our necessities are satisfied, and there is a lot of entertainment available, nowadays pretty much 24/7 thanks to our phones. Work is another factor that comes into play, since we spend most of our day, and perhaps life, working usually meaningless jobs.
Add to that an education that only exists to brainwash us, and teach us a lot of meaningless things.

Considering any formal at all and our jobs are a hell of a lot easier and no less meaningless than it ever was for most people this statement is silly.

I think this environment has made us forget what is of most importance in life, and stops us from exploring ourselves, and the world around us. There is more to life than this.

Considering for most of history most people never left the immediate area they lived in and didn't have time to do "exploring " because they were too busy trying to not fucking die. This statement is silly.

Now I am not romanticizing the past. I know there was a lot of awful stuff around. But those who managed to live (and not be slaves), many lived very fulfilling and adventurous lives, achieved great things. And I think that living through hardships leads to a more fulfilling life and wisdom than scrolling through Tik Tok or Instagram.

The people living in that hardship I imagine would disagree and would happily have taken to Tik Tok or the million other things you as a modern human get to do.

Many examples can be mentioned. Writers such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, scientists such as Galileo, artists such as Da Vinci, philosophers such as Spinoza, and the list goes.

Yup a bunch of people from reasonably well-off families get to be the poster boys and not the millions who lived short brutal miserable lives who would have called what we have heaven.

Nowadays too many institutions control how we live, the state and companies together dictate how we live, how we socialize, how we think, where we work, where we live, etc.

Lol yeah because the government and religious institutions and the community were so hands-off in the past ...

Yes modern medicine and anestesia is nice. But there must be more to life than the avoidance of pain (which in some cases is still not possible nowadays).
1 kudos given by: Aegon

A man who lost all his children to typhus would likely disagree.