The Phychological Carrot At The End Of The Stick

We've never been wealthier in terms of materials and it's only getting better, yet we're still hopeless.

"The wealthier and safer the place you live, the more likely you are to commit suicide."

"To build and maintain hope, we need three things: a sense of control, a belief in the value of something, and a community."

We need to believe that we're in control of our own fate, we need to know that there's some greater value we can strive for and we need support from other be...

"People flock to religion, because religions acknowledge this permanent state of unknowing and demand faith in the face of it."

Religions remove the need to develop a personal manifesto. Your life will be figured out as long as you believe, and the Uncomfortable Truth will loose it...

It feels as though the world has some sort of greater importance, yet in the scale of the infinitely expanding universe, we are nothing but another cluster of atoms.

You are the one who cares. You convince yourself that things matter in order to avoid the Uncomfortable Truth (the idea that ...

"Something needs to matter because without something mattering, then there's no reason to go on living."

Hope is what keeps us going. If we have no belief in the future being better than the present, we spiritually die.

There needs to be some source of hope giving us a reason...