Modern time is shit

[healthrecovery]

At least in medieval age you had tight knit communities and there was chivalry and honor in death
Most people didnt got old but at least lived life to the fullest

 

[FuneralCry]

In modern times the life expectancy is too high. To me there is nothing good about old age watching yourself decay mentally and physically. I think it is better to never be born in the first place, as life is completely unnecessary. No matter what time period, human beings are capable of suffering. To never exist means to never suffer.

 

[Darkover]

yeah it's terrible time to be alive
Unless you start with advantage,you will be some sort of wage slave. Standards of living are higher than they once were (in certain regions)
but many people feel like their life isn't their own, and they are correct.
The system that is in place now is putrid and it is unsurprising that many people despise it, and therefore despise their existences.
individuals covering every corner of a vast globe. Of course, a percentage of those people are going to have really shitty things happen to them on any given day.
Seriously, the way we are expected to live truly disgusts me. We work every day at jobs that we hate in order to maintain lives that suck.
I think, really, 8 hours in a 24 hour day leaves a lot of time, right? But an hour to get ready, and hour to get there, an hour to get back. That's 11 hours dedicated to just the shit job. 5x a week, that's 55 hours.

Then there's sleep. 8 hours a night for that (except on the nights you dedicate several hours of that to lying in bed writhing in agony over not being able to sleep and having to get up so fucking soon). 7x a week for that- there's another 56 hours.

Then there are chores. We'll skimp on kitchen hours and call it an hour a day to cook, eat, clean the kitchen. Boom, 7 hours a week. Probably what... 5 to run errands, 2 doing laundry, 3 for basic home maintenance... that's 17 hours for chores.

That's 128 hours in a week that don't fucking belong to you. And that's if you don't dedicate time to the gym or other optional shit that makes living more manageable. There are only 168 hours in a week, guys.

 

[Callie Arcale]

I'm so glad I live in this day and age where I have a comfortable flat, food on the table, coffee in the morning, hot water in the shower and an AC to keep the room temperature just right. Where women can work, choose who to marry, get an education and inherit property.

In medieval times life was nasty, brutish and short. Most people had zero personal hygiene and no acces to the most basic amenities. Imagine being bipolar, or getting cancer, or having something as simple as a tooth cavity back then. Modern people can't begin to imagine the complete lack of health care. If your thumb got infected, they just chopped it off, there not being any antibiotics available.

Not to mention the level or discrimination and complete lack of freedom - no freedom of religion, speech and thought. It was a time where religious dogma and superstitions held sway. You could get hanged for stealing, being an atheist or commiting adultery. Such absurdity is impossible for us to comprehend.

Nah… people didn't live life at the fullest. They suffered through it, plagued by lice, bigotry and poverty.

I wouldn't want to live 200 years ago, let alone during the Middle Ages.

The present time is horrible, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the best of the worst.

 

[Soapie]

Wasn't everybody notoriously miserable in the medieval age? Like most people could barely afford food cause the church was hogging the wealth right?

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

Wasn't everybody notoriously miserable in the medieval age? Like most people could barely afford food cause the church was hogging the wealth right?

Gaming was also frowned upon and NEETs couldn't be themselves openly.

 

[lana]

All times were and will be shit but modern times are definitely better than what used to be but still bad lol

 

[idiotstillwantstodie]

At least in medieval age you had tight knit communities and there was chivalry and honor in death
Most people didnt got old but at least lived life to the fullest

You are misinformed. For one, people didn't really die all that young. Significantly lower life expectancy was mostly due to child mortality rates.

 

[Darkover]

ou are misinformed. For one, people didn't really die all that young

Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

 

[Soapie]

Gaming was also frowned upon and NEETs couldn't be themselves openly.

Gamers truly have always been the most oppressed group of all

 

[meetapple]

Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s

He's right. Life expectancy was low only because of the high risk of death among newborn babies.
I feel like people haven't evolved in terms of their enlightenment since the Middle Ages. Sure we no longer have atrocities like the Inquisition and certain torture methods have become less widespread. But people are just as ignorant in terms of understanding and accepting differences. People fashion themselves as personal dictators whose grandiosity requires oppression of the undesirables.

 

[Callie Arcale]

You are misinformed. For one, people didn't really die all that young. Significantly lower life expectancy was mostly due to child mortality rates.

It is true that birth and childhood mortality rates were very high, compared to modern times. But few people lived to be 80+.

Perhaps you have a source for your post. It would be interesting to read.

 

[Grav]

Most of the tight-knit communities were the result of serfdom, at least in the early middle ages. There were certainly aspects of life that were done communally such as law and labor and those are still seen in some societies today. I agree that the nuclear family and consumerism as a goal are not good and probably the cause for many illnesses seen today, either through a desire for or a lack of personal relations/connections/community. I believe it's been taken too far.