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Modern society may have issues, but it as bad as it is usually portrayed. 10,000 years ago, you would live in a tribe. If you were not popular among your tribe
by partycoder 9y ago
Modern society may have issues, but it as bad as it is usually portrayed.
10,000 years ago, you would live in a tribe. If you were not popular among your tribe, it is likely you would be either exiled and forced to live in solitude and die during winter or be constantly subject to violence.
2,000 years ago, you would live only to work in a farm or be in a state of perpetual war. To make things worse, literacy rate was something around 0.001%, if you were lucky.
1,000 years ago, you would be essentially doing the same while dying from a plague. There was no sanitation of any kind.
200 years ago, you would be working at a factory and going to war every 30 years.
100 years ago, there was no radio or TV, so you still had stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
About 60 years ago women were predominantly housewives and were vulnerable to all sorts of abuse.
So no, right now things are better.
- toopok4k3 9y agoI wonder what will they say about us in 100 years? Or 1000 years? Let's continue improving.
- _pp9c 9y agoWait, do you think that the Tulsa race riot happened because people didn't have radio or TV? Wtf? Race riots occurred in this country because of the acute structural contradiction between the white settler-nation and the other nations; these contradictions have not been resolved by radio and TV in the interim. We will see more of these riots in the future.
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- partycoder 9y agoI do not think that. But I think is that more people would not have been OK with that level of violence and destruction if they had a chance to actually see it, rather than presented through words on a newspaper.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoThe article was about loneliness not life expectancy. The family/social unit in tribal cultures is comparably closer on many levels than families in individualistic/civilized societies. In the former, survival depends on community cohesiveness, in the latter, survival is a game of everybody against everybody.
- anabisengrin 9y agoCould you stop make your point using such widely false and over generalized statement ? The point of people who think that our society is de-humanized is that when your society was forcing you to work in a farm or to go to war, you didn't have the free will to be alone. You were indeed "forced" to engage in activity involving using your body to do meaningful work (farming), do things with your peers (war).