Existence, life, is precarious and humanities even more so, becuase we have become so good at adapting, surviving and flourishing.
Our cultural evolution has always faced challenges, but as we come to exert greater influence and grow in number, so the nature of these challenges escalates in both gravity and urgency, in that they unfold faster and with greater consequence.
Sure we face tremendous challenges, and there's no guarantee we'll continue to adapt [fast enough]. Existence has always been precarious. But that's not the same as that soft, persistent, dripping, nagging feeling that there's something wrong.
In your life you may or may not be facing deep challenges, the loss of a loved one, a broken marriage, money or business problems, unmet needs and identity challenges ... and these cause us pain. But this discomfort is distinct from that consistent, uncomfortable, background feeling, that there's something [to a greater or lesser extent] missing or wrong.
It's corrosiveness lies in it's quite but relentless consistency, in it's ultimate capacity to corrupt even the purest of motives, informing both behaviour and the systems we develop.
And this, and not the world of changing ideas and beliefs [cognitive therapy] is mindset, and the domain of mindset transformation and mastery.
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