Is modern era comfortable, but empty?

[Macoleco]

Thanks for the deep insight. Very modern.

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