The Comfort Crisis

I have to admit, I was sceptical about the book. Especially since it directly starts with the whole "to experience the world as our ancestors did, you should go hunting" narrative, something that doesn't sit well with me. I'm still not fond of this narrative, especially since I don't eat meat myself. But at least he tried to inject an ethical view into it throughout the book, even though he himself has to admit at least in a half-sentence that maybe not everyone should go hunting. Which shows you the privileged position from which he is talking. On the other hand, of course he is writing from a privileged position, because why write about modern comfort-creep otherwise?

The rest is wisdom about different aspects of our modern lives and why we feel so unsatisfied with it in a pretty condensed form. I've encountered it all before, especially if you're into Stoic philosophy. However, it is a nice summary in an easy to read format. No more, no less.

The book 'institute', as such, is in deep trouble.
No more research, no more thinking.
You pour it all out, make it emotional, and you throw it out as a simple, easy-to-digest brochure.
Calling it a book irritates me a lot.

Juvenile thoughts on 'connecting with nature' along with incoherent pieces of seemingly unrelated studies on being alone, education, conformism, beta-males and the flow by M.C. (I can't spell it, by the author didn't seem to read the whole work of his; otherwise he would understand what level of nonsense he managed to attribute to the concept of Flow as in the book).
There is a story of hunting down deer and whatnot in the cold, getting out there and experiencing the world. As a story, that would be pretty cool to digest; I would pay for it.
But then he mumbles about all these unrelated studies he happens to know about, all the useless interviews he bluntly tries to squeeze into the case he made.
For example, one of the studies he quotes (there is no such a thing as a quote, you have to look it up separately, no exact links are given) concerns leaving your workspace to the park for 20 minutes daily.
There are attempts to link it to the narrative, but it stinks a lot. No coherent idea, just many patches pretty similar to those usually listed in those motivational videos on Youtube (you read that Leo? Hardy? Koe? Schweitzer? ).

They digest those unhappy synthetic meals of 'thought' & throw out those video synthetics for you to feel bad & elevated (as they encourage you to take STEPS AND FOLLOW the stuff they preach in those 9.99 USD books available on AMZN).
Admittedly, one of them suggested this book (Schweitzer) explicitly underlining how FUNDAMENTAL this book is. (Dude, if that's the best stuff you ever read, I am pretty worried about you).

God, how come we ended up reading synthesized products of other synthesized products that lack any connection to reality whatsoever?
Today a book can be written by every monkey out there. If the distribution is suitable, the content is not that important.
People don't buy books for the content; it is a collectable item making you feel good.

It is a living ChatGPT.