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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > is it possible to be truly optimistic after ~10k years of human history?
 
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Oct 10, 2012

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glowing-fish posted:

Citation needed.

I mean, I am not a primitivist, and I know that there were large chunks of history when people probably did live at very low standards of living, but how much do you really know about what life was like in Sundaland 50,000 years ago?

Or, consider a time that is much more recent, (although still ancient): the Harappan civilization (also known as the Indus Valley Civilization), which around 4000 years ago, showed evidence of a relatively egalitarian, non-militaristic society where flush toilets were installed in almost every urban dwelling.

i, for one, like having antibiotics and emergency medicine and central heating

also internet porn and not starving due to bad harvests in a year

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OwlFancier posted:

Perhaps a more accurate reading would be that history is a succession of ends-of-the-world with the primary change being the size of the world in question, and that currently the world is quite possibly the entire planet.

I, for one, look forward to our post-resource wars Somali warlord brigade-turned-world government overlords

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protip to armchair pessimists: humanity is facing serious problems and humanity is better off now than throughout most of (pre-)history aren’t mutually exclusive

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“progress must be worked for” and “on balance, progress has been made” aren’t mutually exclusive either

unless you’re a low energy (:trumppop:) centrist melt praying for tony blair and francis fukuyama’s love child to be crowned as sensible moderate business-friendly world emperor i guess

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OwlFancier posted:

If you confine "the world as it is" to "within the last century except for the really big blips" and make a studious point of ignoring the looming massive problems on the horizon.

Which kind of narrows the statement to more like "I'm fine right now ergo the world is great"

how about "all of history"

it's not like war, childhood mortality and infectious disease risk was super low before the invention of the steam engine

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