Each human being comes into the world alone, travels through life as a separate person, and ultimately dies alone. Coping with this, accepting it, and learning how to direct our own lives with some degree of grace and satisfaction is the human condition.
With regards to the aspect of satisfaction, common-sense understanding of human nature tells one that lack of goals whose attainment requires effort leads to boredom and that boredom, long continued, often leads eventually to depression.
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. ..." When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for themselves...for the sake of the "fulfillment" that they get from pursuing the goal.
Boredom too tends to cause excessive pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal. Those who are tending toward depression seek pleasure as an antidote; hence insatiable hedonism and excessive sex, with perversions as a means of getting new kicks.
Boredom.....is the basic ingredient one needs to counter the fear of death.
With regards to the aspect of satisfaction, common-sense understanding of human nature tells one that lack of goals whose attainment requires effort leads to boredom and that boredom, long continued, often leads eventually to depression.
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. ..." When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for themselves...for the sake of the "fulfillment" that they get from pursuing the goal.
Boredom too tends to cause excessive pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal. Those who are tending toward depression seek pleasure as an antidote; hence insatiable hedonism and excessive sex, with perversions as a means of getting new kicks.
Boredom.....is the basic ingredient one needs to counter the fear of death.
