Comment on Were people happier in the past?
PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe most powerful kings of ages prior would trade everything to have what you have right now.
One of my favorite stories is of Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor, seeking to revive learning and education at his court (and, by extension, reviving elite learning in effectively all of continental Western Europe).
Thus, one of the most powerful men in the world at the time, learned to write, and only imperfectly even with repeated and dedicated practice, in his fucking 40s or 50s.
We are immensely blessed to live in the modern day, even with all of its very serious and real curses.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have this thought experiment I have been running in my head for years now. Don’t read too much into this, it’s just daydreaming.
Essentially, this existence is something that can be experienced from some higher dimension where other beings live. For whatever reason, they choose to enter our dimension and live a full life here before waking back up in their own.
Assuming the ‘me’ that exists here at least resembles the ‘Me’ in that higher dimension, why would I choose to come to this part of human history?
The answer is that I came to witness the height of human civilization and technology before that same technology ends humanity.
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I sincerely hope I’m wrong about that, but the curses of this age have yet to be truly felt in my opinion.
You’re a history buff. Do you think that humanity has ever dealt with a greater concentration of wealth and power?