Y'all ever wish we were still cave people?
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Ehh...not really. I enjoy too many of the things that make life more comfortable. Plus I would have died already. If not by some hunting mishap then when my appendix tried to kill me about 10 years ago.
Plus floride and iodine anonymously save millions of lives, before we even get to penicillin and germ theory.
maaaan...
Although, to be fair, without semi-modern medicine, I'd have died 2-3 times as a kid, and without semi-modern surgery, I'd at least be crippled as a result of being a stupid teenager.
No.
Absolutely not
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Several million not 200k
And the reason is that the species invented agriculture due to natural climate change (not to be confused with the current man-made climate change if anyone was worried) which allowed for a significantly larger portion of the population to not have to work on making food. Also the industrial revolution was its own similar thing.
If you count homo habilis and homo erectus, then yes. Homo sapiens are closer to 300K then 200k.
Something interesting occurred genetically around 60-65K years ago with sapiens that kicked cultural development into high gear, so really should start counting from there.
190k years of a classless society and modern leaders try to tell us capitalism works better than communism although its crumbling after 200 years
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What if our society is built on top of an older more advanced destroyed civilization?
Didn't know Graham Hancock was on Lemmy.
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We would see evidence of that. Which we don't.
We do see evidence of gigantic monsters that roamed the Earth millions upon millions of years ago.
If they invented some technology, it was either made from paper, or we would see fossils of it. But we don't see fossils of it, nor is paper very capable as a technology.
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The notion of "human progress" is a narrative we tell ourselves that doesn't really apply to reality.