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Maybe now that we have had time for some perspective we can adopt the good parts of past cultural practices without having to have them supported by all the bad
by hyperion2010 11y ago
Maybe now that we have had time for some perspective we can adopt the good parts of past cultural practices without having to have them supported by all the bad parts that accompanied them at that time. Let's also not get too generous about our own time, we may not have child labor in this country but we participate in a global market that does and the prices we pay for our goods are lower because of it.
- JorgeGT 11y agoI agree, we haven't achieved a good society for all. And yes, we could learn things as well (which factors allowed the scientific and technological booming, for instance?), but I don't think lifestyle mimicry and luddism are good tools to do this. Also which is "this country"? :P