Who said life is about being happy? Sounds like some hippy ideology to me. What we see on here (GETBIG) is the way people have always been, they just haven't had the medium to express themselves as freely as what the Internet has provided. I think it reduces people's stress to be able to freely express themselves, rather than having to repress or deny their true thoughts and feelings. People from the past lived shitty quality of lives, just working day and night to provide the basics, people today have that burden somewhat reduced. I don't think people get pissed off at different views, just ones that they think cause unnecessary suffering. Like I don't care if someone holds some banal view that doesn't affect me (like aliens exist), but if someone holds a view and it is held by enough people that it causes suffering in my life, then yeah, people get pissed of at such views.(like if a man defends himself against an attacking woman he is still the criminal and she is the victim)
Life is not about being happy, or a constant state of it---which is what people today seek. Yet, they are miserable because what they seek is within them, not external....
Life is about living, the ups and downs, sunshine and rain. You have to take it all. But, people seems so damn miserable, mired in loneliness and dispare.
People today still pick shitty lives, and do so because they "have a right to", and at the same time want everybody else to accept it. In today's world, everybody wants to be accepted, loved, liked. They seek it yearn for it. But, the reality is, it cannot happen, and I believe that is the partial cause for people being miserable. Miserable that deep down, they are not accepted. And then they form groups, groups of "unaccepted" people. And as these groups get bigger, there are people within them that feel "unaccepted", and this more misery.
Hell look at the subgroup called "bodybuilders" and their enthusiasts. What can we gauge from looking at ourselves?
