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That is also ignoring the bigger picture! Your parents did alnost nothing compared to the general infrastructure or society: vaccines, roads, factories, modern
by boxed 5y ago
That is also ignoring the bigger picture! Your parents did alnost nothing compared to the general infrastructure or society: vaccines, roads, factories, modern farming, animal and plant breeding, etc, etc.
THIS is what we are truly basing all our success on. If we were dropped in some random part of the world 100 thousand years ago every modern human would be able to do basically nothing.
- leobg 5y agoFrom a 1946 JFK speech (I just happened to read it a few minutes ago, and it’s exactly the point you’re making): “Some men even feel a faint nostalgia for army life,” for the comradeship, for the feeling of mutual interdependence. And, he went on, there was nobility in this longing, for after all, “we are dependent on other people nearly every minute of our lives—for our food, for help when we are sick. Even when we drive a car we are depending on the skill and judgment of the other people on the road. In a larger sense, each one of us is dependent on all the people of this country—on their obedience to our laws, for their rejection of the siren calls of ambitious demagogues. In fact, if we only realized it, we are in time of peace as interdependent as soldiers were in the time of war. I think it is high time that we recognize this truth. If we did, how much easier would be our time ahead!”
- boxed 5y agoWell it's similar, but less. When driving a car you are not only depending on the skill of other drivers, but on the fact that the car exists at all!