4 ms·
> The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like Us Is that rehabilitating their image? Is your assumption that modern humans are inherently better? World War II was cau
by CogitoCogito 3y ago
> The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like Us
Is that rehabilitating their image? Is your assumption that modern humans are inherently better? World War II was caused by (what I would argue are) modern humans. I believe we could see wars of similar horror in the future.
- 082349872349872 3y agoPedantically, modern humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years, so all recorded (ie within the last five thousand years) wars have been caused by us.
- CogitoCogito 3y agoI don’t think it makes sense to use any more expansive definitions of modern (even if they are more common) than the one used in the context of the article.
- harimau777 3y agoIf by modern humans you mean modern human society, then definitely. I'm not saying that every modern society is better than every ancient society or that there's no aspect where a given ancient society is better than a given modern society, but taken as a whole modern liberal democracy is dramatically better than previous types of society. Even capitalism, one of the worst parts of modern society, is a lot better than the feudalism that it replaced.