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I certainly don't want to take anything away from what you have shared. I've been reading Steven Pinker's book, Enlightenment Now, and there are some sections
by DEADBEEFC0FFEE 8y ago
I certainly don't want to take anything away from what you have shared.
I've been reading Steven Pinker's book, Enlightenment Now, and there are some sections on violence and using crime as an indicator of progress.
Which leads me to wonder, what the phycology of average people were like through history. Presumably everyone in the middle ages had some experience of violence, and would have witnessed awful acts (in the name of good too).
Was everyone suffering inside?
- ambivalents 8y agoHumans are remarkably good at rationalizing away irrational things. There's no doubt we live in a better, safer time now than we ever have. But progress leads to new dangers and threats we didn't think possible. In my above post, I talk about being a victim of a gender-fueled hate crime. Because that is not normal to me. And it's not very normal for others, either. The violence in the middle ages could have been normalized to the point where it didn't cause as much suffering. That I'm not sure of, but it probably depends on the prevailing religious doctrine of the time.
- dsnuh 8y agoNot attempting to discount your experience, just wondering why you refer to being mugged as a "gender-fueled hate crime"?
- pjc50 8y agoThere's evidence that the answer was yes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2923799/Did-ancient-warriors-suffer-PTSD-Texts-reveal-battles-3-000-years-ago-left-soldiers-traumatised-saw.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2923799/Did-a... (Article links to original study but link is bad)