Western society and happiness (serious stuff)

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If you want creativity out of humans, one very effective way is, you force them to into dire situations.

It is a very draining and weightful thing on humans but it works. Just look at world wars where technological advances had some colossal leaps.



It is a part of who we are.
If you are cornered, you either force think a way out, use all possible resources to make things work and you innovate. Or you fail and die.

Current society is far from that. We are all laid back, no worry of dying, no giant threats, calm environments, convenient mass media consumption (game/music/video) why innovate?

99% of work on the planet is being done to fill the pockets of 1% and most of the work is just moving along with very small scientific advances.



People are too chained and dumbed down thanks to starting from 1895 radio invention mass media broadcasting has begun but it wasn't as effective as visual content.

Then came the television era at the 1962 when The first public satellite television signals from Europe to North America were relayed via the Telstar satellite over the Atlantic ocean on 23 July 1962.

This was the beginning of the end. As more and more people started becoming addicted to easy to consume infinite videos, the creativity of the world died down.

Then commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the very late 1980s. And this was the nail in the coffin.

Now it is easier than ever to be lost in sea of videos/games and not many people have will to resist. Bright minds spending time to solve artificial puzzles (video games) when they could be tackling actual scientific problems.



Currently, innovation mostly comes from people who want to be rich.

Some people see potential in certain things and leave all other work, focus on making their dreams reality and get rich.

It is risky but it happens. There are 7 billion of us anyways.

I don't know what point I am trying to make at this point, leaving this post open ended.