Christoph Trummer is more than 60 years old and has lived for around twenty years without possessions - but, as he says, with the greatest possible freedom. In the summer in a hut by the stream, in the winter in a modest dwelling. Someone who definitely does not adhere to conventions.
With the thesis of need and abundance as the cause of human suffering, Schopenhauer is still spot on long time after his death. But in the sphere of abundance, the existential boredom has been joined by the existential stress. As Schopenhauer diagnosed, abundance gives birth to existential boredom. This constantly drives us to prescribe new motives to the will, which leads to a continuous acceleration of society by increasing the satiety level and addictive behavior. The price of acceleration is the existential stress.
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