..,despite our problems, life is as good as it has ever been. Especially if you play the game of “imagine you’re randomly born anywhere in the world.” At almost every point in the past that would mean an above-average chance you would be birthed into poverty, hardship, pain, want, and violence, and your adult life (assuming you made it to that) would be a struggle to stay alive and satiated.
Where did the time go?
they filled it in with drugs, fights, absurd made-up dramas, mostly about who liked who, and watching whatever slop the three channels provided, regardless of quality.
On technology:
I especially struggle taking seriously the “modernity sucks” people who lay the blame on technology and seem to idolize the pre-industrial past. Modern technology is wonderful, and our current problems are not because of the machines, but in how we use them.
More here. I also remember a lot more fights and drama. But I remember long talks about books and ideas, too – something that seems to have moved online and become more poisonous.
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