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Anyone else just get depressed when you think about how the world could operate as opposed to how it does?

Frequently feel that our incentive systems are all backward and that we could be so much happier or better off with just a couple of changes regarding definitions of success. And then I get really sad about how off track we seem to be.
SoFine · 46-50, F
The big issue is "Fear" fear sold in many ways, in each second of each day.
If everyone had a home, had food, fresh water......
People would still be unhappy. ....
Why - Fear
We fear.
Been alone
Dying alone
Not been accepted
Not been loved
Not been understood
Taken care in old age

The physical aspect of living such as food, shelter, water is important. Yet, the mind and how we think of ourselves is the bigger key to living a successful life. True success is not to have fear dominate, fear eats away at the core, when everything else is taken care of, to have no fear is success.

Fear that the planet is doomed is our current fear.....
SoFine · 46-50, F
@Redstar the world operates - My family that live close to Johannesburg know real, big life struggle. Each day is a day to get home safe or wake up, to live the next day. They know real terror. We hear it, we very really see it, we hear it on the news.
We may have .001% of been harmed, they have 100% of been harmed.
I am grateful to live in Australia, I would be dead or rapped if I stayed in South Africa.
Redstar · 36-40, M
You have missed the point entirely.
SoFine · 46-50, F
@Redstar you are so Right......right, right and more right.
Redstar · 36-40, M
Oh god yes.... an incredibly flawed legal system. Education is no better. Corruption... corruption everywhere and it's all for the sake of money, bits of paper and data on a machine... so many inventions that were suppressed because big corporations and the government would lose money, or lessen their control. Cancer cures, cars that run on water, they should have been a thing for ages. I think Tesla actually made it so cars could run purely on electricity. War shuldn't even be a fucking thing.. it's so unbelievably stupid the human race should have outgrown that idiocy thousands of years ago.
If people would stop being willfully ignorant all the damn time, the world would easily and quickly become a much better place. Like it should be. There's really no good reason for it not to be.
4meAndyou · F
No, I don't get depressed about that, because I realize that I am not in charge of the world, and I realize that I am not smart enough to know how to make things better, even if I was.
No point in that, things can always be better, things will never be perfect and 'what if's' don't do you any good
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