To clarify, I wasn’t suggesting everyone does feel this way.

However it must be said that my view on Australian life is hardly an outlier. Official statistics on mental health are alarming and rising, and these are official numbers, to say nothing of all the people that aren’t being accounted for.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/mental-health#%3A~%3Atext=20%25+or+4.8+million+Australians%2C9%25+in+2014-15.

To put it succinctly:

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti”