Michael Easter's 2021 book — arguing that modern humans' elimination of discomfort has created an epidemic of physical and mental fragility — structured around a 33-day Arctic hunting expedition and evolutionary health research.
Creates the comfort-as-pathology argument — The Comfort Crisis synthesizes evolutionary mismatch research (humans evolved under conditions of physical challenge and scarcity) with modern epidemiology (rising rates of anxiety, depression, metabolic disease) to argue that deliberate discomfort is not masochism but evolutionary necessity.
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