Rousseau Dissents from the Modern World

“I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence...[but] has anyone ever heard of a savage man who was living in liberty ever dreaming of complaining about his life and of killing himself?” -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”