The Best Time In History Is Now And Yet We're Unhappy

Ben Shapiro discusses the 'crisis of meaning' in Western Civilization and how we're unhappy despite living in the best time in history.

[noskalborg]

It is the best time and the worst time. It is the most intense time.

[Dude]

I’ve been thinking about this for years now. We need problems as we’re a problem solving species. The problems we have are so insignificant, we make to much of them and as they’re not important in the grand scale, we are harming ourselves, like an Olympian training everyday with a low level athletic club. Frustrating but stuck in the rut. We need to solve real problems to get meaning out of life. Most aren’t, they’re fighting the battles that ended before 1970. They’re a century behind in fighting ‘injustice’. Cognitive dissonance on a mass scale. Plus Trump Derangement Syndrome...

[fusionomni]

The reason people gotten so unhappy is that America is so prosperous, people ran out of reasonable things to be unhappy about, so people have become unhappy over increasingly unreasonable things that just can't or won't ever be solved.

[FKP_]

The best of times is now
What's left of summer but a faded rose!
The best of times is now
As for tomorrow, well who knows
Who knows, who knows!

So hold this moment fast ( hold it fast )
And live and love as hard as you know how ( you know how )
And make this moment last ( moment last )
Because the best of times is now
Is now, is now!

Now! not some forgotten yesterday
Now! tomorrow is too far away!

So hold this moment fast
And live and love as hard as you know how
And make this moment last
Because the best of times is now
Is now, is now!

The best of times is now
What's left of summer but a faded rose!
The best of times is now
As for tomorrow, well who knows
Who knows, who knows!

Now! ( this is the moment we should take )
Not some forgotten yesterday
( yesterday is just a faded memory )
Now! ( don't let this moment go to waste )
Tomorrow is too far away! ( too far, too far away )

So hold this moment fast
And live and love as hard as you know how
And make this moment last
Because the best of times is now
Is now, is now!

The best of times is now
What's left of summer but a faded rose!
The best of times is now
As for tomorrow, well who knows
Who knows, who knows!

So hold this moment fast
And live and love as hard as you know how
And make this moment last
Because the best of times is now
Is now, is now!

[Samuel]

We live in very bad times of anti male extreme Feminism that has destroyed family. There were better times.

[YusukeMuramatsu]

I would choose 1500ad to uncover the world. Must have been so exciting

[darkwolf]

I actually agree with Shapiro on this.

[Nick-rdxs]

Remember that experiment where the scientist made a rat Utopia, with ample food and space, and they all ended up killing themselves? . . .

[Tellyfive]

A long life with lots of worthless “stuff” isn’t the ideal situation for everyone.

[NightShift-civn]

Literally no one-
Sprite - *NEW SPRITE LYMONADE*

[adamnorris]

Why does material prosperity make a society good? If anything it’s the opposite

[derekpadgett]

I wouldn't pick today. I would pick a time when we lived in the forest off the land.

[rcrinsea]

And yet Ben hates anti-Semites. Practice what you preach, Ben!

[BaronSaturday]

The facts care even less about Ben Shapiro's feelings than most other people's feelings.

[defendliberty]

No Ben, the best time in history was some 5 decades ago in the so called "golden age of capitalism".

Which has been superseded and destroyed by today's "globalized capitalism".

[WisdommCore]

So theres an invisible sky wizard shaped hole in the American heart according to Ben Shapiro? Interesting

[WisdommCore]

Ben Shapiro is wrong. You can be both thankful and critical of the country you live in and want it to be better. That’s not ingratitude. Thats a hey we can be better. I cant expect anymore from the king of straw men like Ben Shapiro

[johnpliskin]

because ppl are still dying of starvation, and we have 30 million ppl with no health insurance, and we could solve both of those problems if certain humans weren't such greedy sociopaths

[nickherman]

Seriously what is it going to take for you to run for president?