Arthur Brooks

Well, the whole point is that, you know, the unhappiest people are people whose identity revolves around grievance and victimization.

And this is, by the way, one of the ways that people in positions of relative cultural authority and power keep you subjugated.

The way that I, a baby boomer like me, technically in the last year of the baby boom, can conscript culture warriors who are Gen Z into my movement is by convincing their victims that they should be aggrieved about how the world treats them, about how older people treat them, about how the culture treats them.

Yeah.

Well, or you should be really mad about it.

You should be angry about it.

You should be, you know, carrying a sign in the streets.

That's the tip of the spear.

It's actually what it is.

The technology is a manifestation of the way that the culture of engineering has given us this scientism, this conceit that every problem is a complicated problem that can be solved, as opposed to the most important problems, which can't be solved.

They can only be lived with and understood.

that a more human approach to what we're talking about is that there are plenty of complicated problems that we can solve, but the most important ones are the ones that we can't solve.

And that's what properly, it's interesting because that's what most of the Buddhist teachers will say that the wrong turn of the West was the scientism that said that everything is a solvable complicated problem.

Whereas what we need is a balance between complex and complicated.

The complex problems of the right hemisphere and the complicated problems of the left hemisphere, and they exist in a system.

And there are many things that we shouldn't try to solve because we can't.

We should live with them.

We should understand them.

We should leave them as permanent mysteries that actually give our life flavor.

But the truth is that, especially over the past 25 years in the era of hyperdevelopment of technology,