The World is Too Hard to Understand, so We have Stopped Trying

This seems like a reasonable response to an impossible problem. But is it? Is it impossible to understand, or have we stopped trying too soon? Or is there some other problem we are avoiding?

People don't care - they just want to stop trying. And they say "Let the world go to hell, we are through with it!"

They really think they can live without being in the world!

This is not a new idea, but was common when Christianity was being formed out of many religious sects, who thought the world was evil, and they wanted to get out of it.

It is not hard to see this in the 21st Century - when people feel the world is bad, and they must destroy it. They won't say this, but it is not hard to see, they believe this - and are acting on it.