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This is just a function of modern life. Your brain wasn't built for sitting in a cubicle. It was built for hunting, gathering, and telling stories and singing songs around a fire. Childhood is just a lot closer to that natural state of things. Growing old didn't kill your childlike sense of joy and wonder. Working a job did.
No, that's been the same in all ages. Childhood is magical because you don't carry the mental burden of your own survival. Cavemen adults didn't think it was joyful or magical when food or water became scarce and they had to decide between relocating and possible dying in the wild or in war against some other tribe, or staying and risk watching everyone they know die of starvation.
And also being surrounded by the millions of others suffering the same fate.
I always read this. And I’m not disagreeing. But we had to evolve to hunt and sing and tell stories. At what point do we evolve to where sitting in a cubicle is the “normal” for which we are evolved to do?
Like at some point when AI puts us all into the matrix pods, will we say things like “our body wasn’t meant to be in matrix pods all day. We were evolved to sit in cubicles for eight hours and work on computers.”
We'll never evolve to that point. Unless the environment people live in is pretty constant for thousands of years at a minimum, evolution will not be a factor. We've certainly been farming long enough for it to have some evolutionary effects. Look at the genes on lactose toleranace. Maybe if we lived in a world with jobs like today for the next ten thousand years. But that seem extremely unlikely. Historically, even just the idea of working somewhere other than your home would have been odd up until just a few centuries ago. In early modern Europe, even most manufacturing was done as literal cottage industry.
I guess if we have a couple hundred thousand years of tech stability we might adapt.
This is what the cubicles are trying to do with the people and the culture it favors.
Even with intense selection pressures and a small evolution, anything short of a genocide will take ~ 2000 years. It can happen faster, but it has to decimate the population, and the trait has to be expressing itself in a percentage of the people already.
Eh, I'm pretty sure AI is going to tank our oil wells and we'll be back to a hybrid neolithic and wild west culture. Of course, the transition is going to be rank with bodies.
I think this graph misses off a group struggling with ill health and pain in later life that say things like come on death, what are you waiting for. They are done, stuck in a long decline.
Why would they not be included?
Pretty accurate graph for me so far. I would say "it gets better" is more true. Childhood kind of sucks and early adulthood is poverty and stress. 30s the nadir maybe, not much worse than childhood. But from my 40s things have improved, and so has my mental health and happiness. Like I got more competent at more of my life, finally.
Yeah but my 95 years old grandma had been depressed for at least 20 years while she had to bury her husband and most of her children and struggled with the slow loss of hearing, sight, mobility and cognitive ability.
...huh. It centers right on the working years, doesn't it? Plummets when you would enter the workforce, and rebounds right around retirement
That makes sense for the average person maybe. Unfortunately, I am not the average person and I will almost certainly be cripplingly even more sad in old age. I have strong reasons to believe this, largely due to having missed out on life more or less by sheltering myself from it in my youth. And as I age I'll continue to know this and it'll become more and more cemented and bitter.
Though I will say, this also might be influenced by the fact that they merely surveyed a slice of people, and older people might have been happier in 2012 (and continue to be so) because they have more money than previous generations will have in their own old age.
It's survivorship bias imo.
I don't think you lose the capacity to feel those strong emotions when you get older, but rather the weight of how bleak reality is overshadows the joy, or in extreme cases, makes it seem crass.
Thats not god thats capitalism
We could get all those feelings back and then more on the top if we had 2 day work weeks.
No that's us. WE DO THAT.
Nostalgia is the siren's song.
Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like?
Odysseus: All the things you want it to be. Then, all the things you wished you never wished for. It was the delicious itch you go to scratch but find it's under the skin. You can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. Told you what you most want, is what you most can't have. And what you most can't have, is what you already had, and lost.
Don't forget to also instill in them the concept that they can have those feelings again if only they achieve performance-based metrics that they are not aware of and have no capability of actually learning
Every now and then I will hear something, or the light will catch a scene just right, or something will smell just in the right way where color and light and feeling flood back into to the world. It lasts for a few seconds, and then it’s gone.
Definitely bullshit.
when I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse/out of the corner of my eye/I turned to look but it was gone/I cannot put my finger on it now/the child has grown, the dream is gone/and I have become comfortably numb
Now it’s “There’s no way out of here”.
Lol. You just described why I hate nostalgia. It's also why I prefer to move forward.
Dang, it's like he vibe coded humanity
Think some humans lack the "hyper aware" part.
I'm jealous of that in a way.