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GliderGuider

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2. On the follow-up question

Reply to el_bryanto (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 10:30 AM

Sep 2014

It's a socio-cultural thing. Most people who live outside the ever-tightening vice of industrial civilization seem pretty happy, by and large. Of course, getting from here to that state would require us to do without the "benefits" of industrial civilization, and that would make most of us even unhappier. So most of us are in a no-win situation.

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What is the most prevalent state of humanity - happy or unhappy? [View all] el_bryanto Sep 2014 OP

I said very unhappy. CrispyQ Sep 2014 #1

On the follow-up question GliderGuider Sep 2014 #2

You also might not have a real view of how people outside of industrial civilization are doing el_bryanto Sep 2014 #3

I was thinking more of how people lived for the last couple of hundred thousand years. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #6

Depends upon the person. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #4

Confused indulgence The2ndWheel Sep 2014 #5