our western cultures

What unites us all?
We are the big, rich, western, democratic, christian people, aren't we?
I am possibly part of it, even when I criticize some, I grew up in Europe and I was formed by the environment surrounding me. When I go by train to work every morning, I do not see happy faces. When I return the same. People are tired, people are stressed, people are busy. I rarely see relaxed and smiling people. I wonder, what is it that makes us so unhappy? That we have everything, but not freedom? That we depend. On a lot of things, most of all money. That we are defined by our money and being happy is only possible with the more you have? The most desirable seems to be money. Above it all. And love and health. And what about freedom? We take it all for granted, maybe so much that we can not even appreciate it anymore.
And even forget.