Views on this?
Personally I find this to be the case.
God warned Adam not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil because the consequence was separation from Him and ultimately death.
We are fulfilled only when we are in the presence of God.
Ps. 16:11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
What you are witnessing is;
Since Adam we have been getting further and further out of the presence of God and therefore becoming less and less fulfilled. Like branches that have been cut from a tree we are withering.
But with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ we have been given the opportunity to again stand in the presence of God.
As Jesus said, we the branches can reconnect to the vine and not continue to wither: If we abide in Him, and His words abide in us
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
In fact, most of us are depending on our intellect and our intellect is failing us.