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It doesn't have to be the worst time in human history to be a bad time in human history, though I think our scale is a bit off if we're saying now is on-par wit

It doesn't have to be the worst time in human history to be a bad time in human history, though I think our scale is a bit off if we're saying now is on-par with what was going on in the Middle Ages in Europe, for example.

Trill-I-Am 6y ago
What was the best time in human history?
- 8bitsrule 6y ago
  Probably around 450BC, when the Eleusinian Mysteries began initiations in Athens.
  - toyg 6y ago
    Athens still had widespread slavery though, so I guess you had to be born in the "right" family, which would have been a minority.
  - harry8 6y ago
    Don't overlook that it's pretty recent that our beds are comfortable and our teeth don't hurt. Men not having extra children and wives to compensate for watching them die is pretty neat as well. Pick your time post ww2 otherwise forget it. Even the roaring 20s were total and utter garbage compared to when penicillan existed. In the west, Boomers did pretty well. When they were at their horny age there was this great new pill and STDs were all treatable. We really should rename the baby-boomers the boomer-bunnies. ;-) Probably had it the easiest economically, no world wars. We sleep on the beds of emperors, kings and queens and banquets from the 4 corners of the earth is our norm.
- ateng 6y ago
  I would say the early and mid 90s. The iron curtain is gone, economy is going up (without the gaping inequality we have now), and the world was having great hopes on pulling Russian and China into the international community.
SllX 6y ago
The claim was: “one of the most unstable times in history” in reference to the present day. You can make an argument that maybe this is a bad time in human history, and I would still disagree, but far less so than I would disagree with the claim I was replying to. If you can make the case that compared to just a decent sampling, doesn’t even have to be the entirety of human history, just a good sample, that today actually sucks, I’ll be impressed.

Trill-I-Am 6y ago

What was the best time in human history?

8bitsrule 6y ago
Probably around 450BC, when the Eleusinian Mysteries began initiations in Athens.
- toyg 6y ago
  Athens still had widespread slavery though, so I guess you had to be born in the "right" family, which would have been a minority.
- harry8 6y ago
  Don't overlook that it's pretty recent that our beds are comfortable and our teeth don't hurt. Men not having extra children and wives to compensate for watching them die is pretty neat as well. Pick your time post ww2 otherwise forget it. Even the roaring 20s were total and utter garbage compared to when penicillan existed. In the west, Boomers did pretty well. When they were at their horny age there was this great new pill and STDs were all treatable. We really should rename the baby-boomers the boomer-bunnies. ;-) Probably had it the easiest economically, no world wars. We sleep on the beds of emperors, kings and queens and banquets from the 4 corners of the earth is our norm.
ateng 6y ago
I would say the early and mid 90s. The iron curtain is gone, economy is going up (without the gaping inequality we have now), and the world was having great hopes on pulling Russian and China into the international community.

SllX 6y ago

The claim was: “one of the most unstable times in history” in reference to the present day. You can make an argument that maybe this is a bad time in human history, and I would still disagree, but far less so than I would disagree with the claim I was replying to. If you can make the case that compared to just a decent sampling, doesn’t even have to be the entirety of human history, just a good sample, that today actually sucks, I’ll be impressed.