It's a good article, though. People naturally gravitate towards a feeling of unhappiness. I believe that if you look at most religions over the years, instead of finding out about religion, you end up finding out about the natural emotional state of man, i.e. that people are hard-wired to feel certain ways and they'll find some way of feeling them no matter what the age is.
Overall, this is a good thing -- drives innovation, keeps societies from stagnating, etc. In fact, hell would be a society in which everybody was perfectly at peace all the time. It seems we are designed to struggle and perform our best when we are struggling.
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Dupe from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474588
(I believe this one has more than one dupe)
It's a good article, though. People naturally gravitate towards a feeling of unhappiness. I believe that if you look at most religions over the years, instead of finding out about religion, you end up finding out about the natural emotional state of man, i.e. that people are hard-wired to feel certain ways and they'll find some way of feeling them no matter what the age is.
Overall, this is a good thing -- drives innovation, keeps societies from stagnating, etc. In fact, hell would be a society in which everybody was perfectly at peace all the time. It seems we are designed to struggle and perform our best when we are struggling.