Everyone I know is unhappy. Everyone I know is stressed to the point of sickness. Everyone I know has an extremely pessimistic view of the future. Even people who have been done well in recent years seem to know that progress is unsustainable.

Everywhere I look I see people who are cold and jaded, people who's hearts have become hardened by the cruelty of modern life. It's especially true for the women. College age girls have been abused by the world, unprotected by the men in their lives. It's just sad. The men tend to take it on the chin but there's no real happiness or fulfillment there either. Many waste away playing video games. They give up on the dream of having a wife and kids and a home of their own. Some work dead-end jobs just to survive, even though they'd quietly prefer not to.

I wouldn't say I'm being overly negative here. Everything's subject to change; but this is what I see every day, over and over again. Humanity is being tortured by this system. We truly weren't meant for this.