Because of the fundamentally broken and irrational nature of how our psychology interacts with the non-ansectral environment, all of our imperfect arrangements will inevitably produce much psychological and/or social suffering and “dysfunction”
While I do agree we are worse off in this regard because of the strangeness of the modern world, there is no reason to think nature wouldn’t produce some or perhaps quite a bit of social and psychological suffering even with us being perfectly well adapted to our environment.
I mean we don’t expect it to do so with physical pain.
Yes, yes, I agree. By the local standards I might be a bit of a hippie, but the last thing I want to do is demonize the modern life and compare it negatively with the “natural” (mindless & chaos-spawned) alternative. I was merely focusing on the current problem.
Before I comment a nitpick:
While I do agree we are worse off in this regard because of the strangeness of the modern world, there is no reason to think nature wouldn’t produce some or perhaps quite a bit of social and psychological suffering even with us being perfectly well adapted to our environment.
I mean we don’t expect it to do so with physical pain.
Yes, yes, I agree. By the local standards I might be a bit of a hippie, but the last thing I want to do is demonize the modern life and compare it negatively with the “natural” (mindless & chaos-spawned) alternative. I was merely focusing on the current problem.