New nationalwide poll says only 89% of Britons aged 16-29 years old think their life is meaningless and without purpose

The main thing is that so many middle-class ppl want to live the large life, over-spending dual incomes, etc.

The usurers are happy about it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/families-go-deep-in-debt-to-stay-in-the-middle-class-11564673734

LetsRun.com wrote:

It seems to me that much of the world is in a malaise. Throughout 99.99% of history, life was a struggle to survive. Now that is solver for the most part. Many have thrown aside religion so they are left with a lot of time to simply be depressed. Back in the 1300s, you probably didn't have time to be depressed or without purpose. Your purpose was to find something to eat and make sure you didn't die that night or winter, etc.

You're exactly right. Technology makes life worthless. A task that would take several months to a year 100 years ago now takes mere minutes.

I think this is another example of "survival of the fittest." The weak minded will perish (i.e. be "too depressed" to reproduce) and those that use the extra time to develop their skills will make more money and reproduce at a higher rate. Over time the weak minded will be washed out of the gene pool. The old saying "find a hobby" would benefit those in the 16-29 age range. A hobby that isn't watching youtube all day. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good meme/vine compilation. But spending more than 5-10 minutes on that is a waste of time that you could be learning a useful skill. Once you learn some new skills you can start "inventing." Inventing gives life purpose. For example, developing a new investment algorithm gives life purpose. It takes years of hard work, but the end goal is more than worth it.

LetsRun.com wrote:

It seems to me that much of the world is in a malaise. Throughout 99.99% of history, life was a struggle to survive. Now that is solver for the most part. Many have thrown aside religion so they are left with a lot of time to simply be depressed. Back in the 1300s, you probably didn't have time to be depressed or without purpose. Your purpose was to find something to eat and make sure you didn't die that night or winter, etc.

Kinda like that racoon under your porch?

LetsRun.com wrote:

It seems to me that much of the world is in a malaise. Throughout 99.99% of history, life was a struggle to survive. Now that is solver for the most part. Many have thrown aside religion so they are left with a lot of time to simply be depressed. Back in the 1300s, you probably didn't have time to be depressed or without purpose. Your purpose was to find something to eat and make sure you didn't die that night or winter, etc.

Almost right out of Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto. (Unabomber)

They live in England. It has been a crappy place to live since the 1400s. The USA should have let Germany take over that crummy island in the 1940s.

Only 89%?

So 11% are delusional? How are their lives meaningful and with purpose? There certainly are a lot of crazy people in England

Pure nihilism kills the morale of people. Moral relativism is killing us as a civilization

So, the question is whether any of this will change with Brexit? There is much denigration of the US on LRC, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on the UK and Europe to fare better in the next 100 years.

Also, spending too much time in the 'universal view mode' of life as ultimately meaningless is dangerous and can lead to depression. It's a valid view point and deserves a place in everyone's existential tool box, but life matters and everyone needs to spend at least some time in the 'life is urgently important to me right now mode' in order to maintain balance.

This is hilarious honestly hahaha

LetsRun.com wrote:

It seems to me that much of the world is in a malaise. Throughout 99.99% of history, life was a struggle to survive. Now that is solver for the most part. Many have thrown aside religion so they are left with a lot of time to simply be depressed. Back in the 1300s, you probably didn't have time to be depressed or without purpose. Your purpose was to find something to eat and make sure you didn't die that night or winter, etc.

Yes -- religion is to blame. The liberalization of society, or whatever.

OR for younger folks, we're living at a time when inequality is as extreme as it has ever been. We listened to people like you had said we need to go to college and walked away with debt on debt on debt. Then we can't buy homes so we rent & our rents go up every month. & our groceries go up every month. all while our wages stay stagnant. & then we're told we need to make as much money as possible to be happy so we compete with each other at work where we're exploited over the number of hours we work for pay that doesn't match it. we all think we're gonna be 1%-ers when the reality is that people who end up there were by and large born there so we're really competing with each other and unhappy for no reason.

Things are comparatively more expensive for us right now while huge corporations are so profitable in the US but really the few at the top are the ones doing super well. & then we have to deal with the bootstraps crowd like you who was able to buy a house and do what you wanted to when you were our age.

You whiny little child, every generation feels exactly that same way when they enter adulthood. Work hard, do your best and please try not to become known forever as Generation Whine.

They need to join fight club or a cult. What ever happened to the great cults from the 70s? We need to bring some of those back. I guess there is always Scientology or Landmark Forum for the truly purposeless.

Englandistan wrote:

Wait until they get to their fifties and sixties, majority of them childless and alone, and likely a minority in their own country.

So I guess you are assuming that the majority of 16 - 29 YOs are already a minority in the UK? And I guess you think that being a minority in a country is a bad thing - which it probably is if there are a lot of people like you.