Learned helplessness
Photograph of emotions By Callum Skelton Learned helplessness | Monday – December 1, 2025 In modern times people are affected by learned helplessness and this basically means that their willpower has been hijacked, or I guess another way to put it is this: modern societies are very adept at sapping people of their willpower, and as I've covered in my posts on weight loss , things and procedures that are easy and should be easy have been made very difficult. What civilization or really what culture in human history has had problems with obesity and people being overly fat? None that I can think of; this is an entirely recent and invented problem and many people will die and suffer because of it. There are of course many other aspects of life that seem impossible because of the modern world: these can include natural and also easy things or things that should be easy such as family creation, a topic I recently covered . If you seek to move in a certain direction in the modern world, ...