Acharya Prashant explains that spirituality is only necessary when something is wrong in life, when one is suffering. If life is all smooth and natural, there is no need for any effort towards betterment. It is suffering that forces a person to acknowledge that there is something wrong with the way they think and operate. The problem with the modern world, with its ample means for instant gratification, is that this suffering is not allowed to last. It provides an easy escape from reality. When one exists wrongly, one suffers. However, instead of facing this suffering, there are a thousand and one means available to block it and anesthetize oneself. This does not make the suffering disappear; rather, it gets numbed down, and the experience of suffering is covered by a deceptive layer of pleasure. This process reduces the incentive to introspect and change one's inner fundamentals. When this is done repeatedly, the suffering becomes internalized, going deeper and deeper until it reaches one's core. This is a very bad situation, which he terms as neurosis. He uses the analogy of a dirty table: instead of cleaning it, we cover it with a cloth, so the dirt is no longer visible to our limited eyes. This widespread neurosis is the reason for the epidemic of mental health cases today. Mankind has never been as mentally diseased as it is now, despite being more prosperous than ever. This sickness is why we need so much entertainment. The shrinking attention span, from one-minute videos to 15-second reels, shows that nothing truly entertains us because we know it's bound to fail, so we quickly seek something else. This collective madness leads to a mass catastrophe, with poor decisions being made at an aggregate level, such as nations valuing economic progress over the environment. These decisions are made by insane leaders propped up by a neurotic population. This collective madness is leading humanity towards a deep disaster, and in the process, it is carrying millions of other species towards extinction. The speaker states that the availability of easy means of gratification is intimately linked to this collective insanity. He concludes by saying it is a sad reality that the entire planet has to pay for the misdeeds of this one mad species, Homo sapiens.