The male suicides: Social perfectionism is killing men — and things are getting worse

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79. "Why do these ‘pressures of life’ exist at all?"

Because a worldwide society wouldn't exist without them.

Competition and conformity have infiltrated every area of worldwide society

I don't think infiltrate is the right word there. Look at a definition of society; the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. Now look at mass society; modern industrialized urbanized society: the society of the mass man especially when held to be marked by anonymity, high mobility, lack of individuality, and a general dominance of impersonal relationships.

It's part of it. What works if all the pieces don't fit together? Is having say 1000 different languages efficient, or is 1 language the most efficient?

It is time to build an altogether different, healthier model, a new way of living in which true perennial values of goodness shape the systems that govern the societies in which we live, and not the corrosive, ideologically reductive corporate weapons of ubiquitous living which are sucking the beauty, diversity and joy out of life. Values of compassion, selflessness, cooperation, tolerance and understanding; we need, as Arundhati Roy puts it, “to redefine the meaning of modernity, to redefine the meaning of happiness,” for we have exchanged happiness for pleasure, replaced love with desire, unity with division, cooperation with competition, and have created a divided society where conflict rages, internationally, regionally, communally and individually.

Even in this answer, it only works if there's conformity. How would such a society come to be? By an altogether different and healthier model outcompeting the other model. We can't escape it.