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Anon crunches some numbers
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Y'all ever wish we were still cave people?
I woulda been dead around 10 if not for the medical technology
Metaphorically, I live in a came I'm sort of a caveman
Would have choked myself to death in the womb, so no
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me when i arbritrarily define what progress means
Is this the anthropological equivalent of cultural relativism? "Yeah maybe we got to mars but Grog figured out how this berry makes him shit a lot and that's an equivalent accomplishment!"
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I believe that either:
- Yes, they are equivalent accomplishments
- The environments are so drastically different that even comparing doesn't make any sense
I believe we shouldn't underplay the "over the shoulder of giants" effect, if you are able to engineer a rocket without worrying about starvation/diseases/etc it is because your ancestors have figured all of that out (and it is absolutely not simple to figure things out without someone holding your hand and teaching you)
The distinction is outcome vs intent. No one is arguing Grog didn't have the best of intent when he conducted his cross-country dissertation in shit berries. He shit his little heart out. But no matter how many unstable berries he sampled, his accomplishment pales in comparison with reaching Mars. And one day, sending a rover to Mars will pale in comparison to faster than light travel.
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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Yes, it took a really long time for people to start adding numbers.
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.
The notion of "human progress" is a narrative we tell ourselves that doesn't really apply to reality.
Well yea anon, earth has existed for only 6,000 years, when God created the earth. Duh!
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What if our society is built on top of an older more advanced destroyed civilization?
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.
Didn't know Graham Hancock was on Lemmy.
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