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> We do have it good. Would you rather be middle class today or a king in 18th century? > > We have it amazingly good. The fact that we can't see this ("we" a
by D-Coder 7y ago
> We do have it good. Would you rather be middle class today or a king in 18th century?
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> We have it amazingly good. The fact that we can't see this ("we" as in society) tells me that our appetites are impossible to satisfy.
I completely agree with your first point.
I think your second point may be wrong; rather, people have very little knowledge of how things used to be, so every stubbed toe feels cosmic. (Remember your history class that mentioned the Hundred Years War? WTF does the name of that war tell you???)
- g_sch 7y agoI understand what you're driving at, but I think war is actually a pretty good example of something that's become significantly worse over time. It used to be fought on a small scale. The biggest battles had just a few thousand casualties. Today, war is total, nothing is off-limits, and global conflicts reach levels of destruction unimaginable in the 15th century. And a few nations possess enough firepower, in nuclear and conventional form, to essentially end human existence on earth if they choose.