A lot of people agree that life is shit in the west as well.

The problem is if you don't align with the politics of the person you're conversing with when you say that, they'll get pissed and claim you hate their country and should leave. But they'll readily turn around and also say the country is shit, just for different reasons and claim the biggest problem is people like you who are standing up for the shitty system that's in place.

Maybe not as many people feel this as you think.

I don't believe that. I don't think the number is important, nor does it correspond to my experience. If people were truly happy, they wouldn't be in constant fear and fighting each other publicly. The division is pretty clear.

And a honest talk with people who even percieve themselves as happy, also reveals their concerns and worries and feelings of discomfort.

But my point was more of this kind: why do western societies struggle so much with unhappyness and discomfort? The compulsive therapeutic approach only came with the advent of psychoanalysis and happiness guide literature at the beginning of the 20th century. Today everything has to be translated into positive psychology. For me, this is one of the greatest deceptions against yourself. Because the political enemy is evidently unbearable to the other party - so facts you can't translate into something positive exist.

Real happyness is above such contradictions. Real decadence is ignoring them. The west has become very decadent and I can't see any real happyness in decadence.