You really don't want to live in a premodern state, people. The saddest thing for me studying it was that parents simply couldn't psychologically afford to love their children. They were so much more likely to die than survive, they had to harden themselves until teenage years.
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Imagine having 15 pregnancies but ending up with 1,2 or 3 adult offspring. Imagine losing 12 or 13 children between birth and 10. You couldn't survive it if you let yourself love them unreservedly. Then look at your little ones and imagine missing out on being able to love them.
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It's no good saying slavery, colonialism, high infant mortality, oppression of women & LGBTs happened in modern era so it's bad. That's to miss that they happened in every other era. Look at the one that worked its way out of them. Don't undervalue this unless you want to go back
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Cultural decay and technological advancement are not the same things. Many traditionalists prefer older social structures/values/lifestyle while still approving of penicillin.
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Unfortunately, we couldn't get the penicillin until we pushed religion back and allowed empiricism, science and the free exchange of ideas to emerge.
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Alexander Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, was a devout Catholic.
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I think it’s solely the romanticism associated with the various eras that hook people. It’s another form of fantasy escapism.
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Nostalgia is boring & pervasive everywhere, sometime in the vague past things were good & the future in general is dystopian.pic.twitter.com/9W7nc1Z9v6
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I think they imagine still having the antibiotics and hot running water.
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I think they fetishize it assuming they’re alive :) Seems to be just a bit of misanthropy/unhappiness mixed with noble savage thinking and naturalistic fetishization.
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this is my go-to resource every time someone tells me 'things aren't what they used to be' or words to that effect.https://ourworldindata.org/
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I'm a big white male, I would have done great during antiquity. Or I would have been beheaded by a rival tribesmen, who knows. ¯\_ツ_/¯ I'm not sure I'm willing to bet on this.
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Wait, no, I would probably be dead from an acute appendicitis. ;(
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I'd have died in childbirth. Hypertension. So.....I'm good in this period.
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But there'd be no Twitter or internet, so maybe call it a wash?
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I'll have you know the level 34 character I've built in Skyrim is wildly successful, so I clearly would have done much better if I was born in 1100 AD.
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Combination of idealised view of the past and a belief in own specialness I imagine.
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I was born in 1989. If I was born 5 years earlier due to my acute prematurity I would probably not be there today.
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I wonder if that's why in the north of England and Scotland they just refer to the youngest as 'the bairn' as it meant less attachment than if they called them by name? Historical holdover?
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Bairn is one of the smattering of Viking words we use. Term of affection. A language peculiarity rather than an indicator of emotional distance.
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Ah, thank you! I've always wondered about this
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A vanishing word, sadly. When I was young "baby" was rarely heard in everyday speech. I never hear "bairn" now. Or oxter (armpit).
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My husband's family is all from Newcastle - my son is pretty much only referred to as 'the bairn' by them
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A generational thing - probably. Up here (Scotland) usage was universal. I never hear it now. Hope the Geordies keep it going.
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