(December 29, 2022 at 11:30 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Why do you think that human life has ever been some other way? Do you think that the tribal people of wherever/whenever didn't shape the thoughts of their children and prepare them for the tedious humdrum of whatever their lives, by necessity..caste..or class, would be? That things were...somehow, less set in stone then, than now, and the world was filled with more opportunity for those people than it is for people today?
I don't personally think that our lives are more comfortable and more empty today, no. If you do, though, I'd suggest trading some comfort for some meaning..if that's how things work? If that's not possible for you, today, imagine how much more difficult it would be to trade comfort for meaning if you had much less comfort to trade in the first place.
Indeed there has always been indoctrination on our society. Up to what level I guess it depends on the situation.
But my point goes beyond this. Take for example renting nowadays. You have to hire a real state agent, who will then contact the landlord, and then you will have to pay a bunch of fees you don’t even know what they are about. So after paying for the scam (do you have other option?), you end up living in an apartment which design was not decided nor chosen by you. All this according to the capacity that your salary allows it. Through this whole process you as individual have had no input on any of the process besides paying the fees.
Wouldn’t it be better if I could choose where to live, and choose the design of my house? Yes, maybe hundreds years ago I would’ve died of cold, or be murdered by a thug, but at least I had the freedom to choose where to live.
