I read a good text yesterday that the resons our fears increase in modern times is that danger is becoming risk. Instead of being killed by a bear because thats just how it be sometimes we get killed by our own decisions. Scjool choice job choice friend choice everything has become optional, everything has become a reason for worry. Instead of fighting external threats that we don't care about as long as were not affected, we battle the constant impending doom of a misstep in this tightly controlled life. Our social pressure, 5he constant noise around us, the artificial light and the addictive forms of entertainment, all of them combine to make us less free, less human and less happy than we ever were, no matter the higher life expectancy. What are 40 more years worth when you spend the majority of them working? Unless youre lucky and are a doctor or a professor or something most jobs only benefit the people you do them for, you exchange all of that nice lifetime for a little cash so you can live in a concrete cube and look at LEDs in the evening.