>>4048811>think one should just be happy they're alive to begin withOnly someone who rolled a lucky start can say that. I certainly am not that privileged. Being socially akward, nerdy, delicate, and being gay since I was a boy and being bullied due to that. Furthermore, the modern world is hell and you can see its evil ever more clearly every day.
>Make your own destinyAnd it actively discourages the pursuit of your own goals and what you enjoy and want to do, and tries to make you into a compliant cog in the machine. Through various laws and societal pressures. Just like what you are doing right now.
Objectively, the past was a much better place to live in. It is yet another modern psyop trying to portray it as bad by overstating the negatives, as if the modern world didn't have even worse evils.