this is the age of addictions…what do you think…
i think we have too much of most everything…
what are we lacking-----------maybe the feeling of being grounded…
Our age is a huge concept.
You are using so few words. You’ve barely said anything.
I don’t use drugs, have next to nothing, and have given everything away way in the past to head on out into the wild.
There are always going to be people in one extreme or the other… but the bulk of the population jumps from era to era in a slow migration from each pole. The Romans were great consumers, but they had their desert father period after all that… same happened with the samurai, they went from ostentatious wealth and bloodlust to enforced poverty and self discipline.
Right now, philosophy is inundated with the users and not the doers… it’s largely because the quickest and easiest route of access between the two modes of thinking in todays recliner era is the users… you can sit on your ass through highschool, sit on it through college getting a philosophy degree, and sit on your ass through your career. This is starkly the opposite back in the day when philosophers had to give up alot to undertake a study of philosophy, and then trek their butts across half of eurasia backpacking the books they copied by hand to found a branch school in some dusty little hole of a polis, working to feed themselves while teaching.
Give it time, the user’s understanding of economics is fast-tracking us to a era where we’ll once again will be copying books by hand, and having to backpack across a continent with a load of books to get the learning spread out. There are benefits in both systems, but the excess of either produces sour circumstances for the bulk of people.
I would have said ‘age of distraction’.
Addiction gets a bad rap. Everyone is addicted to something. People look at addiction like it’s an inherently destructive force, which it isn’t. As for “the age of addiction”, i think addiction has always been part of the human condition. We form dependencies in order to cope and always have.
what are we lacking-----------
It depends, different people lack different things. i think many people (including myself) lack meaning and purpose, many people have unfulfilled physical or emotional needs, some people feel sad and want an escape, some people are just plain bored, the list goes on and on.
ugly----i also lack meaning and purpose…
There is a difference between lacking something and merely not knowing that you have it.
Under-standing (ie “grounding”).