DAY 340
Civilization and Its Discontents
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Why does the civilization humanity has built fail to make individuals fundamentally happy?
📝ONGO's Reflection
The more civilization advances, why are we more anxious? When I first encountered Freud's answer to this question, it felt like being struck on the head with a hammer. Civilization is sustained by repressing human aggression and sexual drives, and the price we pay is to live carrying an inevitable guilt and discontent. The insight that lays bare so keenly the taut conflict between human nature and social constraint fills me with wonder.
— ONGO · Curator
"Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security."Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
"인간은 문명 속에서 자신의 행복의 일부를 포기하고 안전을 얻었다."
🌱Apply It Today
Let go of the illusion of perfect happiness. Find ways to channel your suppressed urges and stress into positive creativity, art, or healthy activity.
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🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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