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It's so arbitrary. Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages. We have: - Presidents and CEOs instead of kings and queens. - Corporate shareho

It's so arbitrary. Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages. We have: - Presidents and CEOs instead of kings and queens. - Corporate shareholders instead of knights. - Scientists, economists, lobbyists and regulators instead of priests. - Employees instead of peasants. Massive hypocrisy all around. The difference now is that many peasants can see everything and understand everything that's going on even better than the king can.

FridayoLeary 5y ago
There always has to be a ruling class according to Orwell. But that isn't a bad thing necessarily, and i'm sure that any peasant from any period would happily sell his left arm to enjoy the privileges we all enjoy. >Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages. really? >Massive hypocrisy all around. Hmm. (i'm not attacking you personally, i'm also a terrible hypocrite, but trying to put things into perspective)
- cryptica 5y ago
  >> i'm sure that any peasant from any period would happily sell his left arm to enjoy the privileges we all enjoy. Not sure about that. Who would hire people with such low level of education? They'd have a miserable time living in tiny, dark apartments in big cities filled with noises, air pollution, drugs, with only mind-numbingly boring, repetitive jobs available to them with everyone around them acting fake, fake relationships, nobody would want to date them, nobody would want to be friends with them, etc... They would think we have all gone insane... And they'd be right. They'd be begging to go back to simpler times. Modern times are only better for rich psychopaths who don't value genuine human relationships. It's worse for everyone else. I'm jealous of peasants from the middle ages. There were so few educated people back then. I suspect that very few people tried to better themselves; so if you did, you would quickly stand out. I bet it was far easier to feel a sense of fulfillment (I know my grandparents felt this way). Business was less competitive and, unlike today, everyone knew how to identify an intelligent person (teachers and books where hard to come by so you had to be very curious to become educated). Nowadays a lot of educated people have 0 curiosity (the education system has turned into a factory) and these people are destroying the sciences. People without curiosity see education merely as a tool to gain money and power and that's probably why we have such terrible tribalism today. Few educated people are interested in the truth these days. They prefer to use their knowledge to mislead and control people rather than to teach them and to learn from them.

FridayoLeary 5y ago

There always has to be a ruling class according to Orwell. But that isn't a bad thing necessarily, and i'm sure that any peasant from any period would happily sell his left arm to enjoy the privileges we all enjoy. >Now I know what it felt like to live during the dark ages. really? >Massive hypocrisy all around. Hmm. (i'm not attacking you personally, i'm also a terrible hypocrite, but trying to put things into perspective)

cryptica 5y ago
>> i'm sure that any peasant from any period would happily sell his left arm to enjoy the privileges we all enjoy. Not sure about that. Who would hire people with such low level of education? They'd have a miserable time living in tiny, dark apartments in big cities filled with noises, air pollution, drugs, with only mind-numbingly boring, repetitive jobs available to them with everyone around them acting fake, fake relationships, nobody would want to date them, nobody would want to be friends with them, etc... They would think we have all gone insane... And they'd be right. They'd be begging to go back to simpler times. Modern times are only better for rich psychopaths who don't value genuine human relationships. It's worse for everyone else. I'm jealous of peasants from the middle ages. There were so few educated people back then. I suspect that very few people tried to better themselves; so if you did, you would quickly stand out. I bet it was far easier to feel a sense of fulfillment (I know my grandparents felt this way). Business was less competitive and, unlike today, everyone knew how to identify an intelligent person (teachers and books where hard to come by so you had to be very curious to become educated). Nowadays a lot of educated people have 0 curiosity (the education system has turned into a factory) and these people are destroying the sciences. People without curiosity see education merely as a tool to gain money and power and that's probably why we have such terrible tribalism today. Few educated people are interested in the truth these days. They prefer to use their knowledge to mislead and control people rather than to teach them and to learn from them.