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>it is like living in 12th century, how this is happening in 21st century because human nature hasn't appreciably changed between the 12th century and today
by voldacar 6y ago
>it is like living in 12th century, how this is happening in 21st century
because human nature hasn't appreciably changed between the 12th century and today
- ralston3 6y agoThis hits so hard. All the technological advances, yet how much progress have we _actually_ made?
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoA former British colleague of mine summarized this well: "You now have a better standard of living and can afford a car and a bigger, warmer place to live to live than one/two hundred years ago, and yet you're still a servant, except that instead of a serving a crown that can the skin off your back, you serve massive conglomerates that can take the skin off your back."
- voldacar 6y agoIf anything, technological progress could mask moral or social decay. Survival bias is a thing of course, but reading literature and philosophy from ancient cultures gives me a general sense that they put much more effort than we do into developing virtue and human excellence, or what the Greeks called arete
- amelius 6y agoThe world only has become more complicated. It's far more difficult to change things now than it was in medieval times.