I think if you are always around people who are messed up, then you’ll conclude that humans are fundamentally messed up, and eventually you stop noticing all the normal people who have functional lives and are mostly content. And since (in my opinion) the entirety of WEIRD culture is about as messed up as a culture can be, you’ll never meet any functional humans unless you take a vacation to spend time with people you might perceive as uneducated, stupid, poor, or foreign.
I think if you are always around people who are messed up, then you’ll conclude that humans are fundamentally messed up, and eventually you stop noticing all the normal people who have functional lives and are mostly content. And since (in my opinion) the entirety of WEIRD culture is about as messed up as a culture can be, you’ll never meet any functional humans unless you take a vacation to spend time with people you might perceive as uneducated, stupid, poor, or foreign.
Pretty well traveled WEIRD culture member here requesting explanation