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i wish i could go back in time and live as a sailor or a simple house man doing his job in a village without worries or a polluted environment. think about how happy people must of been to not worry so much about money(#1), crime, pollution, war, technology.
---Sorry to bust that bubble too, but the world you describe has never existed. Ever.
Polluted environment? You mean before indoor plumbing, sewers, and knowledge of germ theory? When you could walk across the Thames because of the raw sewage dumped there? Back when the common cold was often lethal, when life spans ended on average, at age 35? When Smallpox and plague ravaged entire societies and one in four people died of disease and only 1 in 3 children saw age ten?
War? exactly when did that world exist? Since the very earliest writings of man are generally about--- war and the lineage of kings. There isn't a society on earth that has not known warfare. Today at least we try to bomb only the enemy combatants. Until the past century, war was waged on those poor villagers and sailors far more than enemy soldiers. When rape and pillage wasn't an aborration, but rather just business as usual. Back when women and children were the spoils of war.
Money? Again, not a real world you speak of. Bartering then coinage have been with society since it's inception. It's the basis for much of the movement toward literacy- the merchant class needing to keep inventory and shipping logs. The very first 'writing' in Britannia was a series of slash marks for business keeping of herd animals.
Crime? Once again, this utopia has never existed. Crime is older than the writing that details it. Never has any society not known crime. It is in fact the basis for all fundamental laws- known as Naturalistic Law, that binds society.
Technology? Human history is a result of technology. From using a spear instead of a thrown stone, to metal working, to making computers to wax poetic about fictional time periods in our history- the march of technology has doubled life expectancy in under 100 years, it's led to modern medicine, flight, more efficient farming to feed more people, and an understanding of the universe not even imaginable in the past.
No, there has never been any time where life was better. Simpler just means harder. More work, no time to bang out posts on the internet. Less food, more disease, less freedoms, constant hardships, a life span half of that today.
Exactly what was supposed to be better about the past? I prefer electricity and a warm, insulated home. I like not having a 33% chance of watching my child die before age ten. I like us understanding concepts like germs and the benefits of not eating rancid meat. I like having environmental protections instead of everyone dumping their sewage directly into the stream others drink from.
I tell ya what. Spend some time in say, Somalia (I've been there and speak from direct experience) and see how much better 'the simple life' is compared to ours. With illiteracy running 90%, disease more common than death by old age, no electricity, no clean water, not even basic medicines, nothing but poverty, misery, and starvation.
See if that 'simpler time' is all it's cracked up to be.
As for the depression of the modern world....oh please. Before people slaved away (many of them, literally slaves) in fields for 18 hours a day, from the time they were 7 or 8 years old. No rights, no property that didn't belong to the nobility of the area, a church that dominated their every waking moment, punishment in the form of public torture, and impending invasion at any time.
Sounds friggin' great to me.......
That is the real history of the world. Sorry if it doesn't jive with fantasies of 'simpler times being happy times', Deal with it.
I find it pretty naive, or at least hypocritical to be reading a post on the internet, generated by a computer and other technologies, about how evil technology and the modern world is. Frankly, it's laughable.
The past is, at best, what Carl Sagan called A Demon Haunted World. I for one do not pine away for the ignorance of the past.
No one is forced to participate in this oh-so-horrible modern world. You can turn off that evil computer, go be Amish.
Or embrace the modern world with every breath yet complain about it nonetheless.
Today people worry about making a car payment. Not long ago people had to worry about starvation. A failed crop meant the very real possibility of slow, painful death for you and your family. Not hungry, not wait till the meat at Piggly Wiggly go on sale--- but real, actual death with your own stomach acid eating you from the inside.
Queen Elizabeth once quipped that she took a bath once a month, whether she needed it or not.....
Oh yeah, just the grand old days there......
Sorry to be harsh- but man, that nonsense about the 'simpler times' is just a total load of crap, top to bottom.
Edited by TheSollyLama (04/06/09 12:12 AM)
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