MorphedSnowman
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I think that's a rose tinted glasses view of the past. There was a joke in Russia just at the start of previous century that went something like "beat your wife hard, the soup will be tastier", which reflected the way traditional life was and I don't want to go back to that. Neither do I want a minor infection to be a life threathing event. But in the same way you probably don't think that describes the past fully, I don't think your view that modernity must be a rat race fueled by greed is true too. While I agree we do live in such a world right now, I see nothing that says things have to be this way. I would say what you hate, and I hate, is commodification. But that's a part of modernity that we can with time get rid off for something better. These concepts don't necessarily connect to each other in my mind.Our ancestors didn't leave tradition because it was unfulfilling , they left it gradually for the material gain of modernity. "So what if living in a city is more isolating than living in a town or countryside where everyone knows each other for hundreds of years, it pays more". Thinking like that over a hundred years is what got us here, not people deciding we need to do become a better society than we were. They were entranced by all the promises of liberalism and didn't see the end of the road, all the meanwhile they were placated with arts and culture in the same way the romans used bread and circus.
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