30-year-olds cruising bars for no-strings hook-ups are less a sign of cultural decadence than of pessism, visionlessness & desperation When people are doing what you’d expect if an asteroid were going to hit the earth in 24 hours, it’s not because they’re too happy
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This keeps popping up in my notifications so I thought I'd clarify a couple things. I'm not recommending people avoid hard work. Each person needs to decide what goals are most important given their values and work hard for them. That might not always be a long term relationship.
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Also, if someone is generally very happy and content, but also sometimes stressed out or upset about the general hardship that comes up now and then for just about everybody, that's my model of "moderate happiness." I can't imagine getting much better than that in practice.
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Yet it's miles better than a ton of people in longterm relationships do. If you can find moderate happiness in life, you're doing pretty damn good imo.
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I mean... this is definitely a sentiment I would expect in a culture defined by pessimism, visionlessness & desperation

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