Samson Pumpkin Jr.
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- Jun 13, 2020
I implore you to read about life in the medieval age. People worked 4 months out of the year and they had a day off every Sunday. This should be easier in the modern age but somehow that's not the case. The characteristics of someone who's miserable is unproductivity, lethargy and, if things got really bad, revolutionary sentiment. But that's not what you see with medieval peasants. Those peasants had hobbies, they often traveled to distant lands to visit holy sites, they didn't consume much alcohol (drug consumption is a sign of miserable societal decline isolation), and they loved their family.I can assure you people were not happy under a system that legislated morality based on a highly austere religion where the mere feelings of pleasure or joy are considered sinful and "degenerate".
They had kids because they needed free labor in a time before industrial machinery since the bulk of the population supported themselves via subsistence agriculture.
People were every bit as miserable under traditionalist morality as they are today, if not moreso.
You're dreaming of an idealized and ahistorical version of the past that only existed in Norman Rockwell paintings, Chick Tracts, and chivalric romances.
Why would humans be evolved to be happy in an environment which doesn't exist? Our environment today is very unnatural (obviously), so the idea that we would be happier here than in our natural position as farmers is ridiculous. The reason people wanted prohibition of alcohol is because men were miserable working shitty jobs in factories so they consumed ridiculous amounts of alcohol to cope with it, wasting their salaries and beating their wives in the process. This is the same thing that happened in the USSR, there was saying that went something along the lines of this: the son: "daddy, Khruschev raised the price of alcohol, how are you gonna pay for it?" the dad: "I'm not gonna have less alcohol, you're gonna have less food."
In western countries everybody drinks, does drugs, buries themselves in false reality netflix shows, and is socially isolated. What do you think would happen if those coping mechanisms were taken away? people would riot, they would start a revolution tomorrow because their lives are miserable, more miserable than a medieval pastoralist. I would describe the average person today as unproductive, lethargic and having revolutionary sentiment.