It's not that the olden times were more civilized .. it's more that today, our uncivilized components can read and write and use facebook, whereas in the past t

It's not that the olden times were more civilized .. it's more that today, our uncivilized components can read and write and use facebook, whereas in the past the working class wrote no blogs and left no written record (because they didn't know how to write) about how shitty they were being treated by the gentry. Class structures were so stratified in the past that the "proles" were barely even considered human by those people who can read and write, i.e. those people who left written records so that we can read about them now in literature and such. If you were rich (usually from inherited wealth that you did nothing to earn, rich from the labor of the oppressed poor who were never given any opportunity to be anything other than poor) then maybe you were civilized to other rich people and could write about how "civilized" life was. If you were poor, child labor and wife beating were the norm. Let's not even talk about how the slaves were treated. Civilized? I think not.