Is modern era comfortable, but empty?

[Anomalocaris]

Look, fullness of life depends on what you fill your life with.   In any of the past ages there were far less with which to fill anyone’s life, and yet far more people had far less access to even what had been available, compared to now.   This you in your self pitying funk willfully ignore.

You live in an age where there are far more with which to fill any life, and you have access to far more of what is available.     Yet instead of proactively filling your life with more you just bitch and moan about how empty you’ve left your life,  and by way of justifying the effete fruitless self pity you stand up some fantasy idealized vision of the age past that ridiculously generalizes what perhaps 1/10000 of 1% of those who live then had been able to achieve. 

Well, make yourself into an apple so you can compare apples to apples.   Be the modern version of that 1/10000 of 1% of the people, and i guarantee your life will not be empty.

You are completely missing the point. Nowadays from the start since the education, everything is designed into shaping how you think, how you do, and what you will do for the rest of your life. People are less likely to think by themselves, imagine and explore because everything is already “set on stone”. Add to that all the meaningless entertainment that surrounds us every day, and you end up with robots.

You only talk about resources, and I agree that nowadays we have more. I even acknowledged it on the OP. But it is not only about the resources, is what we do with our time, and what we consume. You mentioned illiteracy, yet what do people read nowadays? Reddit, Facebook posts?

Just because we have more nowadays does not mean our thoughts and lives are more free. To the contrary, we may be less free. Companies monitor our behavior 24/7 through our phones.

Also stop attacking me saying things like “self-pity”. As hominem. Grow up

Self-pity is an observation, not an attack.   Grow up

Some people in the past lived productive lives.   But you won’t be one of them if you were born into any of their times, just as you are not one of the more productive people of this era.   those who lived a productive lives seized the fact that they were alive, and ignored the miserable shortcomings of their time, in order to make much of very little.    You have much more, yet disparaged what you have, and pity yourself for not having some productive life, productive in exactly what way you apparently don’t know, forced down your throat.    You really think you would not have complained more and would have pitied yourself less had you been born during and earlier more impoverished era?    You think every hovel before some open cesspits on dirt trails would be populated by people who have nothing better to do than to ensure YOU are only subjected to influences that makes your life meaningful?   

It is not the era.   It is you.    Wailing about the shortcomings of the era in which you find yourself is just thinly veiled unproductive self pity.   The alleged faults of the age seems to justify the self pity.   Your self pity keeps from from making the most of what the age has given to you.    You are hardly in any virtuous cycle that will let you rise above yourself.