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Interesting? Give me some examples. This problem goes beyond the east vs west. This is about humans failing to learn from the past. Add modernity and progress|r

Interesting? Give me some examples. This problem goes beyond the east vs west. This is about humans failing to learn from the past. Add modernity and progress|regress.

wiseowise 3y ago
Sports, science, literature, movies, skydiving, games, online games, learning, I can go on forever about different modern activities.
- cpursley 3y ago
  Most of this was around before the modern era in some form or fashion. There is nothing new under the sun.
  - yakubin 3y ago
    If you weren’t born rich, like Newton or Darwin, you were unlikely to be able to afford to learn and do science. Forget about being able to travel to the other side of the world without a huge risk of dying of malaria, dysentery or any of the other myriad diseases whose risks weren’t yet mitigated. Most people also couldn’t afford to travel even to countries nearby. Games: obviously no video games, but personally I wouldn’t miss them. ;) Other games, like poker, chess, mahjongg: true, they were there. Skydiving: nope. Learning: much more limited. E.g. there was so little communication between Asia and Europe that for most Europeans you’d need to move to Asia for months or more to even find a teacher. Beside languages, education in general didn’t use to be available to as large a percentage of society as now. Illiteracy was the common case. According to [1], in 1701 in UK 54% of population was literate, in Western Europe: 31%. [1]: <https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-historical-literacy-rates https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-historical-lite...>
- wesapien 3y ago
  One of my grand mothers was a teacher and yet she bore 9 children. She lived through WW2 in the Asia/Pacific. All her children got were engineers, couple of doctors and a successful entrepreneur. What's more interesting than that? The truth is that inequality, modernity and self-love is going push us into a demographic collapse. Being a wirehead/hobbyist is definitely less fulfilling and less noble.
  - idiotsecant 3y ago
    Pumping out children is ... noble? How?
    - mensetmanusman 3y ago
      They are raising those who will be changing your diapers.

Interesting? Give me some examples. This problem goes beyond the east vs west. This is about humans failing to learn from the past. Add modernity and progress|regress.

wiseowise 3y ago

Sports, science, literature, movies, skydiving, games, online games, learning, I can go on forever about different modern activities.

cpursley 3y ago
Most of this was around before the modern era in some form or fashion. There is nothing new under the sun.
- yakubin 3y ago
  If you weren’t born rich, like Newton or Darwin, you were unlikely to be able to afford to learn and do science. Forget about being able to travel to the other side of the world without a huge risk of dying of malaria, dysentery or any of the other myriad diseases whose risks weren’t yet mitigated. Most people also couldn’t afford to travel even to countries nearby. Games: obviously no video games, but personally I wouldn’t miss them. ;) Other games, like poker, chess, mahjongg: true, they were there. Skydiving: nope. Learning: much more limited. E.g. there was so little communication between Asia and Europe that for most Europeans you’d need to move to Asia for months or more to even find a teacher. Beside languages, education in general didn’t use to be available to as large a percentage of society as now. Illiteracy was the common case. According to [1], in 1701 in UK 54% of population was literate, in Western Europe: 31%. [1]: <https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-historical-literacy-rates https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-historical-lite...>
wesapien 3y ago
One of my grand mothers was a teacher and yet she bore 9 children. She lived through WW2 in the Asia/Pacific. All her children got were engineers, couple of doctors and a successful entrepreneur. What's more interesting than that? The truth is that inequality, modernity and self-love is going push us into a demographic collapse. Being a wirehead/hobbyist is definitely less fulfilling and less noble.
- idiotsecant 3y ago
  Pumping out children is ... noble? How?
  - mensetmanusman 3y ago
    They are raising those who will be changing your diapers.