TOILETLORD posted:

they do that while making GBS threads out blood into their villages water supply.

Tricky D posted:

Without the crushing rigidity of the forty hour work week, they are able to poo poo that blood whenever the need comes.

babypolis posted:

our whole value ssytem is based on monetary worth, even though money doesnt even make us happy and accumulation of wealth actively makes everyone else miserable. our lives are based around greed for greeds sake

most of us spend our time doing menial jobs so divorced from an actual product that we end uo feeling empty and unfulfilled. the joy of being a skilled craftsman is forever lost us as we spend 8 hours in a lovely office doing absolutely nothing that has real value

our lives are governed by a seemingly endless bureaucracy that also exists only to perpetuate its own existance. doing even the most simple task requires a multitude of forms and ids that end up in a warehouse forever, never to be looked at again

the tradeoff to all of this is our amazing technology, but all it does is alienate us from other people, when social interaction is the only thing that can make us truly happy

modernity loving sucks

Sancho posted:

Antiquity was so much better when 50% of everyone died at 21 by making GBS threads their organs out their rear end

butplug accident posted:

This didn't happen fucktard

FreudianSlippers posted:

This is correct. If you made it out of childhood you were likely to live to live to be at least 60. However a lot of people died as kids from making GBS threads their organs out their rear end.

butplug accident posted:

babypolis posted:

this guy gets it. at least previous generations didnt have to pretend this was all cool and good

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Right, because back in the unmodern day you could just be like "The king sucks and I hate digging for potatoes and gently caress you!" without getting a spike through your head and having your family sold into slavery.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Right, because back in the unmodern day you could just be like "The king sucks and I hate digging for potatoes and gently caress you!" without getting a spike through your head and having your family sold into slavery.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Right, because back in the unmodern day you could just be like "The king sucks and I hate digging for potatoes and gently caress you!" without getting a spike through your head and having your family sold into slavery.

Cardiovorax posted:

You spend a few months actually making poo poo with your hands and then tell me again how "deeply satisfying" that is on a daily basis. I am so loving glad I decided to go to college after all.

Cardiovorax posted:

You spend a few months actually making poo poo with your hands and then tell me again how "deeply satisfying" that is on a daily basis. I am so loving glad I decided to go to college after all.

Effectronica posted:

You could say this much more than you can today, because the laird wasn't constantly watching you and probably hated the king's unreasonable scutage taxes too. The tradeoff? Bandits, mainly, and shittier agriculture.

babypolis posted:

making something cool that actually exists in this world as something tangible >>>> managing excel spreadsheets

Leroy Diplowski posted:

No, because the king is there by god's sole will and your neighbor would sooner report you than risk his family growing ill due to the wrath of god. Also there would not be widespread availability of literature like Candide for you to make condescending literary references from.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

No, because the king is there by god's sole will and your neighbor would sooner report you than risk his family growing ill due to the wrath of god. Also there would not be widespread availability of literature like Candide for you to make condescending literary references from.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Lol at anyone who tries to make anything tangible without excel spreadsheets. Have fun managing your production schedule, or controlling your costs. Hope you're ready to sit in the mud for hours scratching at the dirt and arranging pebbles.

Effectronica posted:

Nobody believed in the divine right of kings during the Middle Ages. That didn't become popular until early modern times. Nor did the surveillance state exist back then.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Divinity of Leaders has been a recurring theme in dozens of cultures throughout human existence. I'm arguing against the nebulous idea of "non modernity" not referring to any specific time period.

The Scientific American posted:

COOK: What would you say is the biggest misconception people have about violence?
PINKER: That we are living in a violent age. The statistics suggest that this may be the most peaceable time in our species’s existence.

COOK: Can you give a sense for how violent life was 500 or 1000 years ago?
PINKER: Statistics aside, accounts of daily life in medieval and early modern Europe reveal a society soaked in blood and gore. Medieval knights—whom today we would call warlords—fought their numerous private wars with a single strategy: kill as many of the opposing knight’s peasants as possible. Religious instruction included prurient descriptions of how the saints of both sexes were tortured and mutilated in ingenious ways. Corpses broken on the wheel, hanging from gibbets, or rotting in iron cages where the sinner had been left to die of exposure and starvation were a common part of the landscape. For entertainment, one could nail a cat to a post and try to head-butt it to death, or watch a political prisoner get drawn and quartered, which is to say partly strangled, disemboweled, and castrated before being decapitated. So many people had their noses cut off in private disputes that medical textbooks had procedures that were alleged to grow them back.