Deepish Thought for the Day

If the modern/postmodern world is alienating and dehumanizing in some unique and unprecedented way, as many people insist, then why is history loaded with nonstop philosophical and theological invention and re-invention? Why are there a zillion different religions, all equally goofy and equally earnest in their attempts to ameliorate human misery, if if there's something special about our misery?

Or is our angst and alienation special only because we're the ones who happen to be living it at the moment?

Ok, back to chainsawing zombies....