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0 pointsbserge4y ago0 comments

Modern life is far more mentally taxing and stressful, so we want to go back to the "good old days".

Pre-industrial (and pre-agricultural) life was more physically taxing and stressful, so they wanted to move on to something better and easier.

At least today you can just save up, move to the middle of nowhere and live exactly like they did 500+ years ago, but with much better safety. You can even add some modern tools without much expense.

But it probably gets boring real fast.

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bpodgursky4y ago

> Modern life is far more mentally taxing and stressful

No, I'm not conceding this point. It ignores that our ancestors evolved large brains (note, before agriculture, _they were even larger_) to deal with a wildly complex natural environment. Knowing the details of the dozens of food sources necessary to survive. How to deal with different seasons. Which of hundreds of animals were edible, which would eat you, and which were fine to ignore.

Life was, in every single way, harder and more complex before technology. Trying to equate our comfortable and materially opulent existence with theirs is wrong.

WarOnPrivacy4y ago

> At least today you can just save up,

Fortunate people can.

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