Seriously, what the fuck did people even do for thousands of years before electricity, smartphones...

What is more valuable, availability of books or availability of people willing to read them?
We have lost something.

You would probably be a peasant in the past.

>killing, drinking, whoring and sleeping
all of these are currently occuring in our civilization,with or without electrical technology.

>availability of people willing to read them?

We notice a lot more retards because we have a lot more people with unprecedented ability to broadcast how fucking dumb they are. On average people are smarter and more literate than ever, you're just getting memed by an availability heuristic.

>On average people are smarter
Factually untrue.

phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intelligent-modern-day-counterparts.html
>In a new study, a European research team suggests that the average intelligence level of Victorian-era people was higher than that of modern-day people. They base their controversial assertion on reaction times (RT) to visual stimuli given as tests to people from the late 1800s to modern times—the faster the reaction time, they say, the smarter the person.

>The Victorian era has been highly touted by historians as one of the most productive in human history—inventions, observations and highly acclaimed art and music from that time still resonate today. The era was defined by Queen Victoria's reign in England which ran from 1837 until her death in 1901. Comparing the average IQ of people from that time with that of modern-day people is, of course, impossible—at least using traditional methods. The researchers suggest that reaction times to stimuli can be used as an alternative way to compare relative IQ levels.

>IQ tests themselves have come under scrutiny of late because they quite often reflect bias, such as education levels, societal norms, and other not-easily defined factors. Other research has shown that overall health, nutrition levels and degree of fatigue can impact IQ scores as well. For this reason, the team has turned to RT as a means of evaluating what they call general intelligence, which they claim to be a measure of elementary cognition.

>They base their controversial assertion on reaction times (RT) to visual stimuli given as tests to people from the late 1800s to modern times—the faster the reaction time, they say, the smarter the person.

>The claims by the European team will undoubtedly be viewed as controversial—after all, no one has proved that reaction times truly are an accurate measure of intelligence. Nor does the data suggest that those researchers testing people for their reaction times chose their subjects at random, or even in fact, performed the tests in the same way as everyone else. There's also the consideration of the Flynn effect, where other researchers have found average intelligence levels rising since the WW II.

You should really take care when you say phrases like "factually untrue" if you're going to follow it with a very disputed claim based on pretty limited evidence.

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I want late millennials and Gen Z niggers to leave until they're at least 25. What's with these retard tier questions?

Flynn effect has been disproved

eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ805976

You don't even understand the difference between intelligence and education, GTFO

>You don't even understand the difference between intelligence and education, GTFO

Cry more, when this started the user had rose tinted glasses about shit like how cultured people are and their ability/proclivity to read books, not their fucking reflexes. You can be intelligent and completely illiterate and uncultured.

There has been a massive influx of terrible threads like this one and I'm wondering where it comes from

>I got BTFO so I'll just... just... answer with a strawman!
kys

They'd be running around bored and getting into trouble

Back in the day there was that commercial "it's 10pm, do you know where your kids are?" and there was a very real chance that they were out boozing or committing felonies.

Flash forward to the era of instant access porn and vidya, and for every parent that answer is "yes, I do know where my son is at 10pm: in his fucking room playing video games which is all he did for the entire day"

you damn NEETs and your long-lost golden ages

I believe it depends where you lived. If you were in hawaii for instance you probably had a good life until niggers found your island. If you were in Egypt you probably had to learn math so you could sell shit and be a merchant.

And then if you were a jew you were trying to figure out new ways to fuck people over.

>you will never live in pristine lands with your family all by yourself farming the lands with no state to tell you what yo can't do

this is why i look forward to ww3 desu, if the vast majority of people dies the world might get comfy again

>ywn settle the frontier with you are senpai

>abloo bloo muh golden days!
Yeah, except nowadays anyone can do those things through the internet, you autistic NEET.

>>you will never live in pristine lands with your family all by yourself farming the lands with no state to tell you what yo can't do
Or grow up on an impoverished dirt farm where one bad harvest could ruin your family for generations

wtf lol

who is this guy

>killing, drinking, whoring and sleeping

Only 4% of the population were fantasy novel protagonists. The rest were farmers.

>you will never be a ancient warrior who commits daily acts of violence, torture, pillage, and raping of young women and boys, honored and celebrated as a great and heroic person after your death despite everything

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>Be ancient warrior
>press-ganged into the army at age 11, have lived most of your life being marched around in chains
>beaten severely by your officers for even the smallest infractions
>daily ration is a piece of hardtack and nasty, muddy camp water. Once in a while when you're lucky you get a bowl of soup, but when you're unlucky your officers make you eat horsefeed because of some inconceivably mundane infraction
>If you even think about breaking and fleeing in battle you will be shamed horribly for the rest of your life. You are literally more afraid of being punished than you are of dying from that impossibly massive horde of smelly Gallic forest apes charging right at you.
>Life that is mostly defined by menial toil. March here, dig that ditch, harvest those crops, thrust that spear. Your life is long moments of soul-crushing tedium punctuated by brief moments of sheer terror
>The worst conditions you ever face were during the siege. Starvation and disease ravage the camp. The only thing there is to do is sit around and play a game of "who can rot the slowest" with your enemy.
>The pay off is three days of raping, looting, and murdering to your heart's content and enough booty to live like a king for like, 3 months before you've blown it all on hookers and wine and fine food
>Back to hardtack and campwater. You saw the quartermaster cutting corners by mixing sawdust with the flower used to make your ration
>tfw wish you were the son of a rich kid. They get to ride around on horses and do mundane logistical work while receiving a freakishly unfair cut of the booty.
>Spend your later years press ganging children and old men into the army. When you retire your general gets you a farm somewhere way out in the fucking middle of nowhere.

>ywn be a court noble in 18th century France
>ywn chat with the greatest philosophers, musicians, artists and writers the world has ever seen
>ywn spend day after day reading, learning music and hunting
>ywn be a philanthropical noble who goes around giving free stuff to peasants while they look to you as a savior
>ywn dance in immensely expensive grand balls and hear the sweet laughter of pure ignorance and vanity of your fellow aristocrats
>ywn fall in romantic love with another noble woman/boy or fall in illicit passion with an innocent peasant girl
>ywn die right before the tragedies of the Revolution and of the early 19th century as a happy old man who has lived his life fully, with plenty of fat grandchildren at you bedside in your countryside chateaux

Why is it all so fucking unfair?

>raping of young women and boys
>and boys
user, I ...

>not being at least subconsciously bisexual
what are you doing on Veeky Forums