Ywn live in a noble ancient city, where everyone has a sense of the gods and are greatful to have a place on earth

>ywn live in a noble ancient city, where everyone has a sense of the gods and are greatful to have a place on earth
>ywn visit the majestic bazaar, with goods and spices imported from all four corners of the world by shrewd merchants who understand the value of their product, and pick up ingredients to prepare for the upcoming feast or to heal your sick relatives
>ywn go to the agora, where intellectual giants do philosophical combat with one another and the true essence of life is discussed
>ywn consult the priests for guidance, who will read the omens and give you practices to become closer to the divine
>ywn make a pilgrimage to the holy sites across the sea, meeting many interesting and quirky characters along the way
>ywn live a full life in service to your people, your kingdom, and your gods, before passing away a healthy old man to finally return to your forefathers

Why did we have to be born in modernity Veeky Forums? The ancients were younger than ourselves, we have grown senile. Everything is so shallow, thin, ragged, and sterile now. They lived a life where everybody was connected to the rhythms of day and night, the changing of the seasons, the harvest. Everybody knew a little bit of each work, the plow and the scythe were more than just symbols, they were things people were intimately familiar with their bodies, the common things surrounding you were filled with depth and significance. Industrialization has made everything incoherent. What do people even know with their bodies nowadays?
Man knew his place within the cosmological hierarchical order, the whole planetary structure unfurled like a map of symbolism and ideas, all derived from the divine. We live at the very nadir of literary culture. I feel like I am trapped in an unfamiliar city and that despite my attempts to make contact with someone every door is shut just as I am about to reach it, so that all I can do is run without direction down the cobblestone streets to the sound of slamming doors and figures dissapeared into doorways.

The ancients were either boy-fucking intellectual elites or slaves. No in between. Fuck off with your historical revisionism.

Give it another 200 years

what happens then?

You'll be dead and have nothing to worry about.

In all seriousness though, just relax and keep a cool head. You're right enough we've fallen quite a ways collectively, but day by day more people are waking up (or better to say returning) to the sentiments you're talking about. You'll run into like-minded folks irl eventually, it always happens.

Pre industrial society sucked. Human history has been a constant progression, meaning the present is eter then the past. Just look at the past, people died at like 40, everyone was a slave, women had no rights, monarchs ruled everyone. Your precious Athens and Rome were all shitty, facist societies. Deal with it.

>people still believe in the myth of progress

You'd most likely be a dirt poor, illiterate, superstitious, filthy peasant working on a farm in the middle of nowhere that died before he reached fifty. The life of the peasant wasn't anything like the romanticized version of life you're presenting and if you did live then you'd likely be fetishising some mythical golden age when all men were virtuous and heros did great deeds. Society and culture have always been shit, they are shit, and will forever be shit.

>>/reddit/

You tried, reddit.

Fpbp

This. anyone who honestly believes that modern society is sustainable is either ignorant or delusional. We have had nuclear weapons for less then 100 years, and yet we have already have had close calls with nuclear war. Things like this will only become worse when more and more nations gain access to weapons of mass destruction. Also we are heading towards an ecological disaster with man fucking with the climate, the seas and the rainforests. all this though, is nothing compared to the horrors man will be capable of in 50, 100 or 200 years (assuming we live that long). Pretty soon we'll have thing like drone armies, so that anyone on the planet will be able to be killed with a simple push of a button. AI if ever fully realized, will probably be the death blow to man kind though.
>b-b-but muh space travel, muh singularity
Literally pipedreams of delusional technocrats like Elon Musk. All the singularity would do even if it is possible, is give man kind the tools to commit suicide with, it would be like giving an amoeba a bottle of hand sanitizer. As for space, well even if we could travel at or very near the speed of light, it would take years to reach the nearest habitable planet, we would literally need to have a generation of humans conceived, born and raised on spaceships so that they could inherit whatever desolate rock we find to colonize, and the other countless billions would be left behind on Earth
>b-b-but, muh modern medicine, muh improved life span
Meaningless. Yes people live longer now then ever, but what good is it? Every generation since industrialization, depression and anxiety related disorders have been doubling, showing no signs of stopping. At this rate, in two generations, nearly everybody will be depressed, so really what good is another 30 years of life when you need to pop happy pills every day just to keep your lips off of the barrel of a loaded gun? this isn't even taking into account things like skyrocketing autism rates, the obesity epidemic or the fertility crisis. Mankind was not designed to live in this modernist environment, and it is driving us mad. If we are to survive, we will either need to take a massive stride forward, or retreat back to preindustrial society.

>DAE le wrong generation

>DAE le reductionism

>ywn wipe your ass after shitting with a sponge that is also used by the rest of your city quarter
Fuck this gay earth

narcissism has been on the rise since the end of world war two, it went fucking parabolic in the '80s

Don't listen to these people user. If you were licky enough to live next to a fast moving body of river back then and your house was made of stone, life was fucking sweet.

You're basing your whole idea of ancient times from relativizations and the position of the elite of a quite dehuminizing society.

Dehumanizing? They were more human than we will ever be. Diogenes actually lived, I don't.

muh roots of western culture larpers need to fuck off back to /pol/

The real point of this thread is how modern industrial life makes writing great literature much more difficult because the sphere of connections and symbols is so diminished from what it once was.