По моему, довольно ясно, что люди построили комфортное существование здесь потому, что не очень верят в загробную жизнь. Хотя многие говорят, что верят, все их действия говорят об обратном.
I would say it's the other way around: people built up technology and comfortable life simply because they could, driven by a natural desire for comfort, safety, and for avoiding natural dangers. As a result, people stopped worrying and believing in the afterlife. In supercomfort societies, people are too relaxed to discuss their philosophy seriously.
The symptoms for "supercomfort society" I found so far:
- people start to emphasize being "laid back" or "relaxed about life" or "not taking yourself too seriously" as a virtue; seriousness, pathos, etc. are reserved for distant political causes only, never for personal life - people start smiling on official photographs, serious faces are gone; even though most photographs in the past showed serious faces, publishers start selecting past photos with smiling faces for today's consumption - people start talking about being happy or feeling happiness as a valid life goal (as far as 1950, a European politician - I think it was de Gaulle - answered the question "are you a happy man" by saying "don't take me for a fool")
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Date: 2017-10-21 02:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-10-21 06:54 am (UTC)The symptoms for "supercomfort society" I found so far:
- people start to emphasize being "laid back" or "relaxed about life" or "not taking yourself too seriously" as a virtue; seriousness, pathos, etc. are reserved for distant political causes only, never for personal life
- people start smiling on official photographs, serious faces are gone; even though most photographs in the past showed serious faces, publishers start selecting past photos with smiling faces for today's consumption
- people start talking about being happy or feeling happiness as a valid life goal (as far as 1950, a European politician - I think it was de Gaulle - answered the question "are you a happy man" by saying "don't take me for a fool")