They hate the idea of happiness coming from anything other than chasing self-indulgence under the illusion of liberation. They simply cannot fathom it any other way.
There were plenty of woes back then and I think it goes without saying that a lot of the bullshit we see now AROSE from the people of those times, but they knew how to appreciate simpler things and find happiness beyond themselves.
No one in the past could have been happy because PROGRESS!
If people were more happy in the past then they are now after PROGRESS!, then maybe PROGRESS! isn't all good. But PROGRESS! is all good, therefore people in the past can't have been more happy.
Why would they assume that the couples would be unhappy? Are those some famous couples?
Just sounds like some projection and or top shelf copium
All of the propagandistic media they've consumed tells them that every couple ends up unhappy.
Seriously, try to think of any show or movie made in the last ten years that depicts a happy, normal marriage.
They hate the idea of happiness coming from anything other than chasing self-indulgence under the illusion of liberation. They simply cannot fathom it any other way.
There were plenty of woes back then and I think it goes without saying that a lot of the bullshit we see now AROSE from the people of those times, but they knew how to appreciate simpler things and find happiness beyond themselves.
Because THEY are.
No one in the past could have been happy because PROGRESS!
If people were more happy in the past then they are now after PROGRESS!, then maybe PROGRESS! isn't all good. But PROGRESS! is all good, therefore people in the past can't have been more happy.