re: #367 Emerald

I’d really love to read if this is a new phenomena or did similar problems exist in the past.

The answer, I believe, comes from Philosophy - and the tangle of philosophy and political science. I cannot relate as well to the ancient philosophers take on this because the times and circumstances are just too far distant. Instead I date this phenomena, as you call it, to Jean Jacques Rousseau and by the radical implementation of it by the Jacobins in the French Revolution - which I also define as the start of Fascism. Since then, there is the recurring theme in fascism that utopia is available on earth.

I don’t think exposure or lack of exposure to the world, its benefits or threats, really define the point of view, but rather the belief system that is defined into people around our system is broken - not the world - and all of the suffering is because either we are not dedicated enough or focused enough on this imaginary earthly utopia.