In examining the configuration of modern society we can explore the motives and players who have concocted our current condition as we move into an unrivalled technological age.
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Does Desire for Ease Come at a Subsequent Cost?
It cannot be said that seeking comfort is innately wrong as animals too pursue the pleasure of coziness, however, it is the excess of it engendering a generation who are weaker, softer, fatter, angrier and more anxious than those previous.
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Our Degree of Care Extends Only as Far as We Can Relate
Acknowledging the enormous spectrum of emotion faced during existence connects us to our fellow sapiens. Joviality to sorrow, excitement to boredom, relaxation to arousal, these sensations signify we are living and unite us with others through shared experience.
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We Will Appear to Future Generations as Those Previous Appear to Us
Each generation looks at itself with glee at the marvels of modern society yet, just as the Romans thought the Goths were heathens for wearing pants, we too will find our ideas laughed and jeered at.
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A Society Equating Wealth to Assets Has a Contaminated Conscious
There is no shame in people who work to survive or who find joy and satisfaction in their occupation, however if they are exchanging most of their life in the pursuit of material are they really living purposefully? On their deathbed will they be happy surrounded by all the stuff they’ve traded their most valuable asset for?
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The Contemporary Human 