I think it is the 'hedonist life'. YOLO you know. Facing problems is not comfortable and made even more so when there is an unwillingness in incapacity to do anything about them. Ignorance is bliss in the moment only though and those who spend too much life avoiding the problems they face will see their ability increasingly diminished.
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You know, I saw this movie about Harvey Milk (the one with Sean Penn) when I was a kid and hin that, he said something about how if you hide a problem in a drawer, it just grows until it becomes immense. If you stare at it out in the open, you see you can beat it. And that's stayed with me for like...10 years.
I wish more people thought that way, but they don't. You're right, it sucks facing problems and unpleasant truths, so they just let someone else deal with them. But nobody will and those problems will grow way out of proportion and swallow us whole.
The trick isn't finding the problems, it is picking the battles that lead to their solution. Sometimes the direct approach is not the best way and instead, a slow undermining of the walls leads to a critical point where they collapse and the flood gates open. When it comes to institutionalised issues, direct rarely will turn tides until the ripples have pulled in enough strength behind the waves.
True, as long as there's resistance...Weird, that should be the most crucial gut instinct in all of us...