Comments by "Shorewall" (@shorewall) on "Why are People Unhappy in the Modern World?" video.

I feel like this channel looks at the past to understand the present, and Isaac Arthur's channel looks at the future to understand the present. I like having both perspectives.
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And people talk a lot more openly online, because they don't see the other people, and they are in their room or on their phone, so it doesn't feel real.
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@Abhi Prakash philosophy and pseudoscientific go together. :D How can science tell you what the meaning of life is? It's the definition of subjective, while science deals with objective reality. Science cannot tell you if it is bad to kill. We have to grapple with morals and subjectivity to do that.
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@baronvonjo1929 Man, in the US, living in the city seems like hell to me. I grew up in LA, and for the average grunt, it is the opposite of glamorous. Every pleb would be better getting out of the city.
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@JaneDoe-dg1gv There is a old book I heard of called "Garden Cities of Tomorrow", by E. Howard. He wrote that communities should be limited in size, and if there are more people, build another town some distance off. And to combine the town and country, into town-country, having the benefits of town, and the benefits of open country and space. I haven't fully read it, but I am fascinated by the concept. Isaac Arthur, the channel that this one recently did a collab with, has done videos on Arcologies, which I think are really interesting and kinda go with the idea of autonomous factories that allow smaller settlements to be materially viable. I think the potential is there to redefine our reliance on overcrowded cities, which are anti-human in so many ways.
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Incel is an epithet, used to insult or accuse. Anyone who willingly calls themselves that is a loser. You are not owed access to a women's body, just like no woman is owed access to my time and energy. It needs to be a good deal for both sides. Focus on being a more attractive deal, and compromise on your standards. I think porn is more to blame for incels, since they can have supermodels stripping and getting plowed for their leisure, and then can't deal with the real world.
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@carso1500 I completely agree. Someone once told me that in every person there are two wolves, one is good, and the other evil. Which will win? The one I feed. Going beyond that, I get mad when I talk to people complaining in the US, and all I think of is every other country that wishes they could have our problems. I don't believe in minimizing other's problems, but I do believe in minimizing our own, and being grateful for what we do have. When you think to be grateful, then you will suddenly realize how good you have it, and you will immediately be happier.
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Western Civilization was built off of Christianity. Cope. :D
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Our future as a species will include coming to real grips with the Internet.
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@JaneDoe-dg1gv I think the city state is a great form of government, but you would need a league or federation for defense. I think the 30,000 pop is a good social unit. I think Federalized States is the next step up, and then regions. Base it all on population, and even it out.
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I think both feed into each other. I think you can regulate into demographic decline. It's like how great white sharks won't breed in captivity. People need a certain amount of freedom to take initiative. And starting a family takes a lot of initiative.
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I mean, the world still has plenty of frontier, but the powers that be crowd us into the reservations. So we can be counted, observed, and taxed.
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Very true.
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@mavikartal7775 People are not taught how to succeed. We are taught CRT in school, not basic economics. We are not taught to save, to avoid debt. Hell, kids are taught to go into debt! People can succeed, but we are taught how to be a cog, not how to succeed.
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People like it. I remember when he tried the face cam, people couldn't cope with change. :D
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It won't work in the west. The West was built on questioning and exploring. Confucianism is built on social stagnation. Good for East Asian countries, but sounds like my hell.
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@jimmyatoms4438 I grew up in LA and then moved to the Suburbs of Salt Lake City. A big difference is that stuff costs less, but you also earn less at jobs. It's best to save up at a higher paying job in the city, and then move to a reasonably priced suburb or rural area to live like a king. The other difference is less people. Less traffic, less crime, less stress. I think cramming people into cities is anti-human. This video itself talks about how humans have mostly been agricultural, and we are still adjusting to industrialization. Well, that includes cities. If you live in a city, you will have less. Less space, less time. Maybe more money, but also more costs. It's not worth it. Everyone needs to spread out. I remember seeing an old book from the 1920s that said that the ideal community was no larger than 40,000 people. Because more than that and the city can't administrate effectively. It's like overcrowded classrooms. People get a bad experience.
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The bureaucrats just need to loosen their grip, and people will even out. That's why people rebel and go to the extreme, because they have to overcome the oppression
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If you like it, doesn't that make you happy? I guess it depends on what people mean by happy. I think to separate pleasure and happiness, where happiness is more like fulfillment.
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@baronvonjo1929 He says it to illustrate a point. I kinda like when people repeat stuff, because it helps it to sink in.
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