Our WORLD is F*cked Up...
In a Nutshell
Modern life has made pleasure, comfort, and distraction instantly accessible through engineered food, social media, pornography, dating apps, and substances, yet this has triggered record levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, obesity, and suicide. The core problem is an evolutionary mismatch: brains wired for scarcity are now exploited by corporations that profit from keeping people weak, broken, and constantly reaching for the next fix. The only path out is rejecting easy pleasure and choosing difficulty, discipline, and purpose—the ancient idea of eudaimonia—because strength requires effort while weakness is sold everywhere.
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You're living significantly more comfortably than any king in the vast majority of history. Your house is warmer than a medieval palace, your fridge has more variety than a Roman feast, and you can talk to a person on the other side of the planet for free. By every measurable standard, you are living better than 99% of humans who have ever existed. Despite having all the comforts of life, suffering appears to be at its highest.
Globally, over 300 million people are clinically depressed. The World Health Organization reports that anxiety and depression have risen by more than a quarter in a single decade. 720,000 people will end their own lives this year, one every 40 seconds. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for people under 30 across most of the world. More than 1 billion people worldwide live with a mental health disorder, meaning nearly one in every seven people globally experiences some form of mental health condition.
The average human now spends nearly 7 hours a day staring into a glowing rectangle. For Gen Z, it climbs past nine hours, more than a third of waking life, fed to an algorithm engineered to keep you scrolling. One pornography website alone receives over 4 billion visits a month, more than Netflix or any news site. The average boy is exposed to it before he turns 12.
Obesity has tripled worldwide since 1975. Birth rates in nearly every country are collapsing. Marriages are dissolving. The question that matters is what's causing all this decline.
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