A lot of those very much do not sound like "things are falling apart" to me
Tech oligarchs who were all “Disrupt!” are now all “Wait not me! I’m a rent seeker now!”
It’s a predictable circle of life given the common and fundamentally unchanged from any past iteration over the last thousands of years, human condition.
It's always been an empty platitude from the SV disillusional masses: when the business model is 'grow at all costs, even if you lose money' in order to cash out on an over-inflated IPO, it was clear that it was never to disrupt anything. It was t:o build something seemingly novel, raise funds to fight a war of attrition, moat, weaken the opposition and take majority market-share and then cash out.
Plan B is selling out to some megacorp/tech oligarch in order to rinse and repeat as a 'serial entrepreneur' until you eventually get to a position in which you get on a board and you can ossify something like Twitter, too!
This is an interesting manifestation of the incompleteness theorem. :)
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-... [2] https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/2... [3] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-religious-countries...
“ In one comparison made by the World Health Organization, the per capita prevalence of unipolar depressive disorders is highest in the world in the United States. Among Western countries, Finland is number two.”
Is it possible that believing a lie increases ones chances of being happy & less depressed?
Sure, but that doesn't make it worthwhile.
Thus, you apparently can be genuinely happier if your worldview is based on a lie.
Still not worth it.
I don't think I've ever heard of a religion that is so airtight that it blocked any ability to reason on how the others might not be a lie also.
Almost no religions state this, it might be an interesting thought experiment to steel-man your arguments :)
History does though & the history of religion is that extremists who are religiously exclusive are much more likely to affect someone else's life due to their zealotry.
That why there are so many wars & crimes linked to religious exclusion.
This is a philosophical statement.
From where cometh this objective truth? :)
This subjective truth, however, comes from my value for integrity, which you apparently lack.
If you have no moral qualms about having a worldview based on lies, then more power to you.