Quote: (12-27-2016 09:51 PM)Rob Banks Wrote:
I've heard this before, and I'm not sure I agree. Sure, the average person today lives better than a medieval king, if you define "living better" to mean having an easier, more comfortable life with access to modern technology and modern medicine. However, if you define "living better" as having a meaningful life, having the freedom to fight for what you believe in, being free from globalist control of your life, living in a society that believes in traditional values, finding a good woman, etc., then a medieval king (or any respectable person from that time period) lived far better than almost everyone alive today.
Like I've said before, technological advancement solves some very important problems, but it also creates new problems. I don't think it is possible to get around this. In my opinion, anyone who believes it is possible to avoid the downsides of technology is just as wrong as anyone who believes that "socialism will work this time." Human nature simply doesn't allow for it.
Sure, you can get some people to believe in "red pill" ideas, but there is no way to get society at large to re-embrace traditional values in a technologically advanced world, in my opinion.
Poppycock with this BS nostalgia for bygone eras.
I've got journals from 17th and 18th century family members living in Europe. They were truly depressing miserable bunch. All of them had 8-9 kids, only 2 or 3 survived between all of them.
They lived subsistance life styles. The only time they were truly happy was during a wedding celebration.
Other times, they were writing about how scared they were when easternly winds blew, trying frantically to explain their child's death using astrology, and praying daily.
Technology solves as many problems as it creates. If you time warped to your era of choice you wouldn't be complaining about feminism and societal decay, you'd be complaining about the high infant and female mortality rate, the lack of decent food, or the landed gentry consuming 70% of your income.
In fact, i'd wager to guess that you'd rather have bitchy women and pointless divorces over the daily occurences of death, war, and famine. Personally, i know I would.
This really goes to show that the creature comforts of today really shouldn't be afforded to most of the population. Frankly they don't deserve the gifts of our technological eden if allv they're going to do is whine and complain.