Oh they did, yeah. But if you go back a century or two and manage some great political changes to the industrial revolution, we could avoid the worst of capitalism and actually get proper cooperatives, thus actually funding the people instead of large institutions / nations / corporations, which whole claiming to do good, actually ended up doing bad.
That’s the short and more rational version. My own is just like, go back in time and shoot the fuckers responsible for the drug war and we’d avoid quite a bit of the problems we currently have. I could go into a whole multihour monologue as to how the lack of empathy in today’s world is because we live in much larger societies but also, because I believe prehistoric humans actually had a tendency to do parties with serotonergic substances (shrooms back then, nowadays also lsd and mdma), which are proved to increase empathy and lessen your fear of strangers (this would’ve been necessary for populations as you can’t inbreed with a small hunter-gatherer group, you need to meet other groups and have fresh genetic material), and while that is still going on with a small part of the population, most people aren’t doing it and are stuck treating eveyone outside their family as “others” and that just won’t work in our interconnected world where we need to work together to avoid the only known planet to sustain life from becoming uninhabitable to humans.
But that’s just a brief version of my 2 cents. And because it’s so short I believe most will perceive it as schizo babble than actual reasoned arguments but as I said, I could write a book on this shit so I understand that a silly short version won’t convince anyone.
Because you’d rather live in the cold dark ocean than in your neet cave?
Just go back ~century and fix it there, easy peasy.
Our societal issues started far longer than a century ago.
Oh they did, yeah. But if you go back a century or two and manage some great political changes to the industrial revolution, we could avoid the worst of capitalism and actually get proper cooperatives, thus actually funding the people instead of large institutions / nations / corporations, which whole claiming to do good, actually ended up doing bad.
That’s the short and more rational version. My own is just like, go back in time and shoot the fuckers responsible for the drug war and we’d avoid quite a bit of the problems we currently have. I could go into a whole multihour monologue as to how the lack of empathy in today’s world is because we live in much larger societies but also, because I believe prehistoric humans actually had a tendency to do parties with serotonergic substances (shrooms back then, nowadays also lsd and mdma), which are proved to increase empathy and lessen your fear of strangers (this would’ve been necessary for populations as you can’t inbreed with a small hunter-gatherer group, you need to meet other groups and have fresh genetic material), and while that is still going on with a small part of the population, most people aren’t doing it and are stuck treating eveyone outside their family as “others” and that just won’t work in our interconnected world where we need to work together to avoid the only known planet to sustain life from becoming uninhabitable to humans.
But that’s just a brief version of my 2 cents. And because it’s so short I believe most will perceive it as schizo babble than actual reasoned arguments but as I said, I could write a book on this shit so I understand that a silly short version won’t convince anyone.