Good meme. The secret though is: they’re all the worst year ever and the best year ever. I remember thinking life often sucked as a teen. It did! We wanted the technology that people throw out for being too old today. But looking back on it- boy I miss it sometimes. Amazing times those were. Life is strange. I don’t know that a peasant from 1300 could adjust to function in the modern world. They’d sure probably like a lot of things about this life compared to theirs. But... maybe they wouldn’t. One things for sure- most people, after awhile- even if they came from 1300... would say today sucks eventually, wether that’s 2020 or 2120 or 1980 or whatever.
Agreed. Hopefully we can keep those off the bingo cards at least for a long while to come. We shall see. Being old has its pros and its cons- one thing I will say, the world looks different when you know that you have good odds of not being around to see the long of how things turn out, or the consequences if they go bad. One could turn to apathy, but I find it gives me a perspective- free from caring about things reactively out of worry for what they mean for me. I wish that more people could see that now and then- a world where they are less clouded by a filter of bias of self interest. I think we could keep civil war and terror off the bingo if we could get more people to see a world less in a light of what they get out of it, but by who they can help suffer less.
I mostly share your views. We tend to be resilient as societies and we need to look stuff at a larger scale.
but the problem is that as a species we tend to stand alone in fear. There were heroes at every time period but biologically we have a reproductive strategy that involves having few kids, but caring for them. So if you consider a family, putting your children after the greater good is a very violent choice that (as a whole) we're simply not wired to make.
And edit: It doesn't look good, we got 3 more attacks this morning.
That’s the rub. Lol. It can always swing too far the other way. Extremism. I don’t know that it’s too good to put the “greater good” ahead of self; and I think putting oneself far ahead of everyone else’s good is not so great either. Often wrongs are justified under such noble intents. As you say though- hard to fight our wiring.
but the problem is that as a species we tend to stand alone in fear. There were heroes at every time period but biologically we have a reproductive strategy that involves having few kids, but caring for them. So if you consider a family, putting your children after the greater good is a very violent choice that (as a whole) we're simply not wired to make.
And edit: It doesn't look good, we got 3 more attacks this morning.