Toward a Shallower Future

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Adversity is not worth the price of adversity.
As the world becomes safer — as one after another edifice of human suffering crumbles before the collective might of science, technology, and industrial society — it becomes harder to harness the emotional power of tragedy, risk, adversity, and heroism.
Some romanticists imagine that society is a cycle, where hard times create strong men, who create good times, which creates weak men, who create hard times.