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It's interesting that the psychology remains the same, even when there was no actual danger.
by marcus_holmes 7y ago
It's interesting that the psychology remains the same, even when there was no actual danger.
- carapace 7y agoI think it's a concomitant aspect of civilization itself. I mean, it's only what? 12K years since we started living in towns, right? Despite it's advantages civilized life kinda sucks in general. I think people long for the pre-civilized "Golden Age" and that's the underlying root of the apocalyptic longing for the world to end. (I'm not saying that pre-civilized life was an actual Golden Age, just that it satisfied us on a deep biological level in a way that urban/civil life doesn't.)