Yfw you live in an era of cheap and fast international jet travel...

>yfw you live in an era of cheap and fast international jet travel, varied cheap and delicious food available to you from all over the world, endless amounts of (practically) free entertainment in the form of music movies and literature, hot showers, ice cream, high quality pornography filmed in HD, and instantaneous worldwide communication

As a person who studies history, do you ever take a step back to appreciate how well you have it in comparison to 99% of all humans that lived up until now? And how it will only get worse in the future, due to peak oil and the impending ecological disaster that will follow global warming?

Future historians will literally look at our time as the apex of civilization and development. How does this make you feel?

feels bad because I'm squandering it and can't stop

>and the impending ecological disaster that will follow global warming?

Global warming and ice ages are a natural cycle that humans have endured before, don't buy into the memes.

>Future historians will literally look at our time as the apex of civilization and development. How does this make you feel?

We are the Rome of our time.

t. 100% real climatologist

>mfw there's nobody that will be able to fill the hole left by America's decline

It feels like a lot of that tech causes people to spend more time alone, and humans are social animals

A lot of the modern age feels like one of those experiments where they tried to synthesize a vitamin and ended up poisoning people because there was more going on than just that one compound

Pornography is not a replacement for sex, Veeky Forums is not a replacement for actually talking to people. It's an empty, cheap copy that only serves to prevent people making a better effort at finding actual people to connect with

We have also never been richer, never been healthier, and never been safer than we are right now. Yet public perception is that all of these things have declined since "the good old days." It's weird.

your deductive priori's don't mean jack shit beyond projecting your own insulated & isolated worldview

an average doesn't mean shit to a non average individual

and no, they won't.

explicitly not now since the accountability of justice in the form of recorded evidence in the electronic age

thorium soon comrade.

It can't be any worse than smoking ciggies or drinking alcohol and making your liver burst.

>200 years of human industrialization will literally end the human race.
ok bud.

>peak oil

got hiiim!

it might not end the human race, but 400 billion tons of carbon might raise the temperature a little bit causing problems

>root-less consumerism is the apex

OK user.

Joke's on you, I smoked weed all the time until I started having psychotic episodes and remembered that my mother was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Yes. I'm living a good life and loving it.

>people think that staying indoors and not interacting with people or having sex is symptomatic of the modern condition
Try not being a NEET. Try asking a girl on a date. Life is literally easier than you think.

>cheap and fast international jet travel

i wish it were that cheap
a flight from usa to london will set you back well over a grand

Wow, a blatant strawman and an argument from incredulity in one sentence.

That's only about a month's wages, assuming you make minimum wage.

>a flight from usa to london will set you back well over a grand

Which is far, far cheaper than that trip has ever been.

thxfam, but sometimes the h8ers get to me

for example if I share my interest in history they call me a loser just because I am different and don't know anything about pop culture or whatever normies are into

Dubs checked.

Does this mean 800 years of Dark Ages after we're done?

Yes it is amazing. I think google maps is a godsend. How many millions of people have lived and wondered what else was on the planet? Who are all these other people? Where do they live? What do they do?

It's amazing that I can use street view and see what an average small Japanese village looks like

Your NEET ass wouldn't last a day as a peasant AND your Lord would fuck that peasant girl you have a crush on in the hay barn and there's not a God damn thing you would do about it

>It's weird.
no, it is called boredom which is the other face of hedonism

>I think google maps is a godsend. How many millions of people have lived and wondered what else was on the planet? Who are all these other people? Where do they live? What do they do?
no., your little interrogation shows how much of a 20 yo illiterate liberal you are. That internet makes us see how other lived is not from the poor to the rich.

There is also the subject of the middle class. The classical liberals created, without really thinking, a few billions of individuals in a few centuries at best. They did not think of what to do with them, to the point where, in Occident, the middle class is the most crucial problem of the liberal democracies today. When the hippies were trendy, galvanized by the euphoria of the victory over the nazism, off the implicit authoritative system that is the liberalism, the middle class boomed and the question remains of their utility in the democracy. Indeed, thus far, an especially now in order to support the baby boomers for at least another twenty years, the middle class is only good at working to earn money to live day after day, but also to have a bit of leisure just like the bourgeois had before the middle class emerged. The middle class is a bastard of the bourgeoisie and the poor : the middle class has every desire of the bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie which works far less, with just a bit more means of the poor in order to satisfy their desires. In passing, let us remind that the citizens in greece did not work, something claimed unnecessary now by the people who still want to change the system for the better that is to say, once everybody else think and behave like them.

The atomization up to the individual could be seen as developed to its fullest, but the internet changes a bit the situation. It is true that the middle class remains all about leisure, especially if they are poor and the companies manage to satisfy their desires (with cheap goods and services), but the internet permits to a few to develop their local democracies in their little towns.

The internet is also a trap, because contrary to what many said, each globalization goes form the rich to the poor. When it was about the rail network, people thought that the little villages could at last communicate and sell their goods to the big cities; it is the converse which happened in majority : the big cities developed its supply to the little villages. As soon as a communication is established between something with resources and with something poorer, the hippies believe that the poorer will at last benefit from this. No, it is not like this. The flux goes from the resourceful to the weak. People say that internet permits the little village in africa to sell their goods to the rich europeans. It is true, but the demand for these products will be very low. These artisans are producing unique goods such as engravings, wood carvings... mostly art that is very low priority for most people. The majority of the exchanges remains from the rich to the poor. Internet permits the africans to buy often the cheap goods sold by occidental companies. In europe, the africans of the internet becomes the little developers who program an application for the mobile devices.

Before internet was the television, a communication remaining unidirectional. The USA broadcast their programs in the 90s in europe and south america. It created the wealth and happiness that the poor and the middle class seek and love to seek. The internet is exactly like the television, but to a higher degree : the internet is here to broadcast the wealth of the rich to the poor. Now that the occidental aristocrats spread their lives in texts, videos and sounds, the poor abroad and the middle class in occident see all the wealth which lead them to adhere to the doctrine which permits this wealth. The point is not really to be moral, or more precisely, but the purpose is to reject a moral doctrine which is more constrained than the one permitting all this wealth. People reject their pains naturally and are not stupid enough to reject their pleasures jut like they reject their pains; therefore, why to go beyond the liberal doctrine, when we are happy if we subscribe to it and even better, we are simultaneously happy and moral?

The liberalism is the most effective doctrine thanks to it marketization of every human activity. If we take the hippies, they adhered, for the least bourgeois, immediately after their few years of amusements, to the incentive of wealth and became the baby boomers having all the fruits of a democracy. The recent movement Occupy WS remained infertile; we even find the mask of the anonymous as a merchandise. Same thing today with the eco-tourism : the tourism for the middle class wishing to help the destitute abroad, so that we have now all the exoticism of a trip with the morality assured. Same in everyday life : When we pay on ebay some chinese good, sold for double by some western company, we can give 1 euro to some unknown charity.

To join the clergy is now a strong statement, probably misunderstood or ridiculed, after the liberal achievement to turn the liberal democracy into a secular one, a feat in their view, something whereof they remain proud dozens of decades later.

>Future historians will literally look at our time as the apex of civilization and development.

>For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago. Historical discussions should be focused on past events, and not their contemporary consequences. Discussion of modern politics, current events, popular culture, or other non-historical topics should be posted elsewhere.

>For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago. Historical discussions should be focused on past events, and not their contemporary consequences. Discussion of modern politics, current events, popular culture, or other non-historical topics should be posted elsewhere.

>For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago. Historical discussions should be focused on past events, and not their contemporary consequences. Discussion of modern politics, current events, popular culture, or other non-historical topics should be posted elsewhere.

well

the barbarian invasion is pretty much on time

You'd be crying to go back home within hours

Especially with no air conditioning to reward you after busting your ass since 4AM till night

t. grandchild of rural traditional farmers