RE: Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong
November 14, 2012 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2012 at 2:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 14, 2012 at 2:34 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: In fact, I think people 500 years ago were happier than we are now, because they didn't have artificial pressures on them like "I won't impress da ladies if I don't own fresh kicks",Oh? For some reason I think that the variety and craftsmanship put into shoes (and a wide array of other garments) in the 1500's would disagree with you. Fashion (and an obsession with pretty clothes) isn't exactly a recent thing.
Quote: "I need to drive a Beemer to show im successful",Ever take a look at carriages..saddles....the braided manes and tales and meticulous grooming of our equine friends?
Quote:"I'm worthless without my fashion sense",15th and 16th century court would like to have a word.
Quote:"I totally need to sleep with person x in order to gain social status in my social group",Oh, you mean like sleeping with a baron, or a duke..etc etc etc....?
Quote:"If I won't make the team, my dad will reject me".What team? Nobility, titles of honor, the priesthood, mercantile guilds?
Behavioral modernity stretches back a great deal further than 500 years...and while we may not be able to imagine every passing thought of our ancestors of 500 or so years ago they aren't exactly completely unrecognizable. Beauty, status, sexuality, pride a sense of acceptance by ones family did not spring forth recently. It's similarly tenuous to imagine that people were by-and-large more unhappy 500 years ago. We might be happier or less happy if we transported ourselves to that time...but isn't likely that these people would have found happiness and unhappiness in their situations, possessions, status, and surroundings in a way that is much different from the way we do today. I know that we like to imagine the "miserable peasant" and "carefree savage"....but why we do this..meh, who knows.
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