• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    7 小时前

    Are we better off spiritually or socially? The modern world is emotionally, existentially and socially bleak. Life expectancy does not indicate happiness except to say that people aren’t killiing themselves early.

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      5 小时前

      Ask a mother if she would trade half her kids for a natural lifestyle.

      But yes, that’s the question… I think I take modern life over endless struggles and getting eaten by a lion.

      And just to be clear: pretty much all of existence between “settling” and now has been worse in almost all regards compared to now!

      If you want what I’m reading from your statement, you have to consider the old style (semi-) nomadic lifestyle that’s natural to us