> A thousands times less people? It would be excruciatingly boring. I don't think it would be. > Even now at the peak of cultural and technological production

> A thousands times less people? It would be excruciatingly boring. I don't think it would be. > Even now at the peak of cultural and technological production it feels really slow (How many really great movies or song per year? Maybe 1 or 2? Mathematical proof? To each their own I guess. To me this seems like shallow, vapid passive consumption that is never going to be not-boring no matter how many other people achieve great things while I watch on. Not to denigrate passive entertainment too much and it has its place, but I couldn't think of anything better than if people got sick of it en masse and started getting most of their entertainment from doing things themselves. Write their own proofs, learn an instrument, play in a local sport team, join a theater group and do their own performances, join a pottery group, start wood working or hacking computers, volunteer. > Simply finding an acceptable lover? I'll refrain from taking the cheap shot -- I'm certainly no one-in-one-hundred-billion either :)