From my casual reading of history and what was invented/discovered at what times in different areas, life before, say, 1830-1850 would be unrecognizable to us. Hell, drop me back in my teens and I’d struggle to remember how to navigate the 80s! In just 55-years, I’ve seen such radical changes I sometimes feel swamped by history and tech.
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I invite everyone who holds this opinion to go do some reenactment. The earlier the better, but really, anything pre 1800s will do for an idea of what life was before modernity.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do they have any hunter gatherer reenactment societies?
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Apples to oranges comparing the early modern era, anywhere back to classical days, to prehistory.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It is. Being a hunter gatherer is significantly worse, but you won’t find many reenactors who will go for a weekend of prehistory.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe we’d see more caveman reenacting if mammoth burgers were a possibility
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I disagree if you are claiming being a hunter gatherer was worse than being a farmer. As do a lot of archeologists. For the reasons I already stated.
Farmers are at the mercy of the rulers of that region. They can’t just leave. They become slaves.
VicVinegar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you have to work to eat and survive you quickly stop giving a shit that you’re “working.” It doesn’t feel like work to chop wood all day knowing it’s gonna keep you from shivering or freezing all night.
That doesn’t make it easy, it makes it less deflating. Work feels more like “work” when you’re just doing it to make some other asshole rich.