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I feel your anguish. However, you must realize that if you were living in 1924 instead of 2024, the outlook for humanity would be far more bleak. Penicillin wo
by chasil 3y ago
I feel your anguish.
However, you must realize that if you were living in 1924 instead of 2024, the outlook for humanity would be far more bleak. Penicillin wouldn't be invented for another four years, so bacteriological infections were lethal. Measles, mumps, or rubella had likely claimed the lives of your siblings or neighbors. And your life would be bracketed by the world paroxysm of war that you had just endured, and the paroxysm that was to come.
Compared to that life, we are free from disease, the food supply is more vast and diverse, and the technology is simply stunning.
But, in a particularly human way, we dig for misery and we are very good at finding it.
I don't know what to tell you, except maybe put the shovel down for a little while, if you can.