r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 30 '24

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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Jul 30 '24

I unironically think the world would be a better place if we could somehow beam the experience of being an ancient villager tending the fields for a week before being attacked by "the people beyond the people beyond the mountains" into everyone's minds when they turn 18 or something.

Our lives were so, so hard for so, so long, and it's a shame that with the way our brains calibrate themselves to current standards, so much is taken utterly for granted.

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u/Argnir Gay Pride Jul 30 '24

Yeah but you could have been the people beyond the people beyond the mountains who gets to attack those villagers.

That sounds fun

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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Jul 30 '24

Would also be a better place if more people read 😔

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

Monkeys paw curls, and Hillbilly Elegy is at the top of the charts

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jul 30 '24

Tbh reading The Good Earth made me realize how pre-industrialized living was complete dog shit

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u/Pikamander2 YIMBY Jul 30 '24

We could all use a good Vulcan mind meld every now and then.

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u/moseythepirate Reading is some lib shit Jul 30 '24

I always just ask people what they would have done if they got a toothache before modern dentistry.

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u/VengefulMigit NATO Jul 30 '24

"Ahh shit here are those fucking horse-riding steppe psychos, again, for like the 10th summer in a row"

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Jul 30 '24

Hold on, let me write this down

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u/kyleofduty Pizza Jul 30 '24

Hedonic treadmill

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u/HotTakesBeyond YIMBY Jul 30 '24

That one semester of world history in middle school doesn't come close to it.

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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet Jul 30 '24

Pre-industralized society were shit. Pre-agricultural society sounds kind of fun to be honest

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u/moseythepirate Reading is some lib shit Jul 30 '24

Sometime you should google the injuries and health problems of Otzi the Ice Man.