Why are humans getting weaker and not stronger?

Question

Why , with all the progress that's been made to make life supposedly easier, are many finding it more and more difficult to cope with life and it's challenges?

Oigit · Answer

You need to be careful with who you surround yourself with and this is even more true since social media took off. Because life is going to be full of struggle and can be hard to cope with. But if you surround yourself with people that are struggling without making much effort to move forward we can end up focusing on the struggle itself and not how we can move past it. Because it becomes a shared mindset. The issue with social media is it makes it really really easy to become surrounded with people who are not trying to move forward. So we get caught up in sharing each others struggle and not really trying to find any way to move past it.

The person that made me realize this was my mom. She had cancer since her teens and it could be hard to keep it in remission. But she avoided support groups. Because she was pushed several times in her teens and twenties to join them. But when she went she realized several members had completely given up. They where not going to go through any major treatment programs or try to improve their life despite being sick and any conversation you had with them regardless of the topic would turn into them talking about how bad their cancer is, how they can't possibly have a good life because of it and how miserable they are. They where basically living like they where dead already and being around them was starting to cause her to develop the same mind set. So she had to quit going to the support groups and refocus on moving forward despite being sick.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Maybe because progress brought freedom, which increased life's complexity, leading to more and more existential challenges?

I can imagine simpler times where we didn't really have to think about identity, we simply pursued whatever social role our family already had. Whereas freedom makes you think about what you are, what you could be, what you should do, how you perform, what you haven't done, what others can be...

Stress.

I can imagine simpler times where we didn't have to think about relationships, whatever girl or boy in the village became a lifelong partner. Whereas freedom makes you think about who you should choose, who gets chosen by others, who you could get, opportunities you missed, predictions you should consider, personalities to value or turn down, breakups you have to brace for...

Stress.

What if you didn't have the right friends, the right colour for your sofa, the right behaviour?

Could you have a better phone, a cheaper car, who are you going to vote for?

What about your health, your diet, are you planning for the future?

There are more and more things to choose, whether they are futile or critical...

Stress.

Too much stress on an organism forces it to slow down, in order to recover, either that or it dies I guess.

So is life easier? Supposedly, as you said, just a supposition, considering the many sources of stress freedom throws at us...

MisterWack · Answer

There are no predatory threats to worry about or for hunting capabilities.

It was the biggest and the strongest in a collective group to bring down a mammoth, get a deer for dinner, kill a wolf for its pelt, fend off ravenous lions from eating them, etc.

Like that stuff doesn’t really help us type up a company email, make a poster for the office meeting on Tuesday, file taxes, check your mail, scroll your phone, gaming, etc.

I don't know there’s less of a need and less manual labor than there once was so, makes sense we aren’t all muscular and tough.

Also not to mention the food industry, allowing for obesity to be on the rise without regulation and restrictions on companies responsible.

There are more barriers than that can be simply solved with muscles, it takes brains, heart, and a lot of willpower to get through everything.
Our ancestors weren’t mentally stronger than us since shellshock (PTSD) existed back then. “Young people can’t handle war”, yeah and neither could the past victims of atrocity. There is good progress, one would be stopping the endless wars and promoting more benefits to those that need mental aid to combat it and live a normal life of love and peace, prosperity.(Felt I would throw this at the end since the “we are getting weaker” thing, people might shake their fist in their air and crap on today’s youths which is unfair)

Mark_Est · Answer

Cause that is what the powers at be want. Less resistance.

Turn women man hating H's, that kill their own children by the millions (73m per year by the way) , so no family units form cause that would motivate men to invest in their society and care about it.

And turn men into some weak beta cucks, that have no self control, self respect or for others.
These modern dudes sit in their little cuck chairs and jerk it to some woman they want, while chads go at it. Or in the evenings watch some slop sports and drink poison. Or game, or etc.

Circus and bread for the masses.

purplepoppy · Answer

People have always struggled but in the past the shame of mentioning it kept them silent, the fear of the asylum, the risk of public humiliation, all forced them to hide it.

Most old people are broke inside, they were taught to hide the hurt, the injustices, the losses. All that's changed is societies attitude, the mask has slipped.

Viola_456 · Answer

Well hard times make strong people and easy times make weaker people.

Top people nowadays are better than top people used to be in every field like sport, science or anything.

But avarage people pretty much dont have to do anything and will survive just fine soo they dont need to be strong or capable.

Iron_Man · Answer

Because most people are addicted to their computer they can’t get off of it and they eat in front of their computer nonstop pretty much and they don’t get out an exercise and they don’t even watch TV anymore. They’re just stuck on the computer. And that’s a shame. Very few people play sports or work with their hands like you do, but you don’t play sports.

BCRanger10 · Answer

You said it. "Progress". That and we've gotten too comfortable.

sage2021 · Answer

Talk about easy. You should have been around in the 70's when life was easy!

President Carter was a pretty uneventful president. Not like the ones since him. But he wasn't the brightest president we ever had either.🙄

Bricealan · Answer

@thegreenyogi AI isn't helping... My car drives me everywhere, ... if I let it, and parks itself... If I let it!

Electric bicycles everywhere. No peddling anywhere I see more morbidily obese people everyday

RavVid · Answer

Every woman is an entitled brat-diva now. Complaining is all they can do. They wanted to work and now they complain about having to work.

Female happiness is tanking because they have got what they demanded.

xawyx-3 · Answer

Because they rely too much on technology, and becoming lazy (e. g. using a TV remote, driving a car even for short distances—instead of walking).

Burgermistercold · Answer

Because God made life more then we can handle so we might depend more on him, do not worry about tomorrow when today is stress enough. This entire life is a test everyone on this earth was born on death row, another way to look at it is your on trial. you can defend yourself or lose or call on Gods grace and be saved and covered in his blood.

virgo2267 · Answer

True… the bible does state that people used to live easily over 100-150 years… maybe it was due to their diet back then? ‘Different genes? Different times? Different morals? Different stress? Who knows

slatyb · Answer

Do you have data to support this? Some things have gotten more difficult but in general people are much better off than they were sixty years ago.

Shiprex · Answer

We're overly pampered now and being raised with risk aversion and fear of failure. It's totally mentally hindering human spiritual development

genericname85 · Answer

it's the wheel of history. bad times make tough people. tough people make good times. good times make weak peole, weak people make bad times. and that's pretty much where we're at.

832loverboy73 · Answer

MENTALLY weaker because of the modern demand of collegiality above all else.

ElenaLena · Answer

Because of capitalism and we are less connected to each other on the human aspect..

Friendlybro79 · Answer

We don't need to use our bodies anymore. People are sitting down at desks all day. We're turning into veal lol.

exitseven · Answer

Society is reverting to it's lowest common denominator.

Spencer10 · Answer

Technology is slowly killing us... computers get smarter while we get dumber.

Anonymous · Answer

Just you wait. If humans weren't as narcissistic as they are i'd say in another generation or two we'll be the fat people in thier floaty chairs in the movie "Wall-E"

Cidknee · Answer

Maybe because it is easier so we're getting weaker.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

actually a very good question, sadly progress means new issues are created as well

msc545 · Answer

Life is getting more difficult, primarily thanks to capitalism and the craving for oil.

Anonymous · Answer

People are certainly living longer than ever before.

Nik1hil · Answer

Good time creates WEAK PEOPLE!..

Paige2006 · Answer

Processed foods

moddy_the_mod · Answer

you answered your own question.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Easy life makes for weak and whiny people.

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