The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
“A lot of people, especially young people, have always felt that intuition to refuse. Most of that impulse has been managed as ‘art movements,’ so you have the surrealists, the modernists, the beats, hippies, punks, slackers, etc. These are in general people who feel like, Jesus, anything is better, even self-destruction is preferable to simply finding my place in such a sterile world.”
Curtis White