It's election season! Everyone is almost calling their favorite presidential candidate to be 'saint-like', 'all of our problems will finally be alleviated! Only HE can do it!' I want to start off by talking about todays debate questions provided by the panelists and the questions that were emphasized or deemed to have a great urgency to be solved by the future president.
LIFE! Everyone sure do hell love it! Life expectancy, plans for future healthcare system were asked.
source = https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
I'm not going to talk about a lot about speculation, but simply by seeing from 'what has happened'.
What kicked off at 1900? The industrial fucking revolution, the second one event, the big one.
I'm only going to attach indonesia because it's going to be the main highlight of this article, though we can all agree MOST countries had a linear run of population by the 19th century.
Primal needs. These people (including me), in order to live, there must be a 'price' to pay, for the simplest sense is must be food. It will not be made accesible for me unless there's a jump development in means of transportation of goods which was enabled by the advancement of the industrial revolution. Horses were replaced by automobiles, there's a jump in advancements of maritime technology as well.
Petroleum industry, both production and refining also had a good development:
Petroleum is used as an energy source and as a raw material for the production of an immense variety of chemicals and synthetic materials. Almost all the world's food relies on petroleum for fertilizer, pesticides, cultivation, or transport. Petroleum has been particularly dominant as a source of transportation fuels, an application for which cost-effective substitutes will be especially difficult to find.
(Marius S.V, Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry)
Even the sake of agriculture and the transportation of those goods rely on a good supply chain that is enabled by having an efficient and sustainable source of energy as a mean to transport those goods.
The materials that were shipped from astray to build the foundations of our house with cements and bricks were also enabled by the development in petroleum.
In the modern world, we did not get to vote on how the world has become as of now, rather it was chosen adn sculpted by the people before us. As much as we didn't choose to be born, rather it was our parents decision.
Much of the unpredecented circumstances also follows, with the problem that a lot people have about the industrialized society. The problem and anxiety that comes with money (not having enough money, worry about income and outcome etc)
Most of these problems seems emergent in nature ((of a property) arising as an effect of complex causes and not analyzable simply as the sum of their effects.). Through the simple and pure need to reproduce out of the assumption that it is a good condition to reproduce, now comes a need to sustain the child's well being and ultimately, the enablement of those child to survive by the advance of technology. The human population co-evolve with technology.
A rhetoreical example can be brought: 'under what circumstance a couple can deem that it is a right moment to bear a child when they even hate their condition of living?' In which it can be answered by simply looking at the state of North Korea, a country that rules under dictatorship and the limitation towards globalization (international sanctions) and thrive under independent 'closed economy'.
Through obviously rules and conditions that I didn't fully cover, we can see that the country suffers low birthrate
The point is almost truism: 'Why would someone who deem himself in a constant state of unhappiness and suffering would want to reproduce?' When there's cases that they reproduce it probably because our own definition of 'happiness' is different to them.
Moving on, Happiness and Welfare! The Desire to Life!
When people say, the situation that made 'life' 'hard' is because of the people 'previous to us', I tend to agree. But that isn't just how life is? We didn't choose to be in this kind of society and as much as some people wish that they can be hunter gatherers, well best of luck for their Alaska retreat, it even requires some degree of 'wealth' to do such retreat to the forest nowadays.
Okay, some people hate work and some people deem it acceptable, what I have a problem with is people who think that there's no way out of it, and the answer is to be found from the 'saint' outside of themselves, a true sign of 'hopelessness'. While to some degree it can be true, it really can be true, but it never really mean there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm an existentialist, 'everything happens for a reason, only because you made the reason.' Underscoring what it means that I see life as something that is inherently meaningless, but only because meaning is something you make on your own.
People can say 'life is meaningless' and I can agree, because life can only have meaning when that person assigns meaning into it. And so much with the meaning inside their struggle.
With this being said, it can be said that people can 'suffer meaninglessly'.
What I have a problem with is that hoping for a saint-like figure to alleviate its suffering, it's maybe because I don't believe that there's any promise of a 'good ending'. Saint-like figure is to emphasis that no matter what they do, the solution is not from them but rather, the solution is beared externally.