They must have experienced pain or suffering a lot of the time because they didn't have modern medicine for most afflictions, they didn't have much entertainment, it took an age to travel anywhere, the food was probably not very good, etc.
Why weren't suicides very common?
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Perspective. They didn't know what today would look like.
Haha you have a terrible view of the past.
Like everyone was miserable all the time.
Why wouldn't they be?
In these time, death was commonplace, sure, but life was also simpler. For the majority, food and family were the only real concerns and everyone celebrated holidays festivals in ways similar to what we do now. They didn't enjoy the same civilisation we do, but they had no concept of this modernity so they weren't missing anything. I dont think we now could possibly guess as to the general mental state of these people anyway.
It would be incredibly depressing for Anglo-Saxons to walk past Roman ruins on the way to their thatched huts.
Just imagine you get an infection or something, today you'd use antibiotics or whatever and it'd go away after a couple of weeks, but back then what could you do about it other than just suffer indefinitely?
Were people happy in Judeo-Capitalist and/or 21st century times?
They must have experienced pain or suffering a lot of the time because they didn't have modern medicine for most afflictions, they didn't have much entertainment, it took an age to travel anywhere, the food was probably not very good, etc.
Why weren't suicides very common?
The Anglo-Saxons thought giants built the ruins and didn't like roman infrastructure anyway
Humans are animals, retard, because they don't live in cushy bourgeois western decadence like you doesn't mean they were unhappy
if anything they were happier living an agrarian lifestyle, where they weren't rootless cosmopolitans taught they were empty individuals whose only aim in life was the consumer capitalist 'dream'. they had ancestral heritage, spiritual belief, family, their tribal communities which wouldn't have changed for hundreds if not thousands of years. they worked fields tenanted by their lords and enjoyed the fruits of their labour first-hand. their craft wasn't alienating, feeding your family straight from the field is as fulfilling as anything
'Cattle die, kinsmen die, but what never dies in the legend of the dead man's deeds'
is*
I think it's a valid question, to say nothing of people who don't live in first world countries.
For most people in the western world, most of our waking lives are taken up by work and tediously satisfying basic needs. Most jobs are bullshit, unfulfilling wastes of time.
You're speaking in very relative terms. These things might seem like problems to you but people living in the medieval era didn't know any differently.
That said:
>They must have experienced pain or suffering a lot of the time because they didn't have modern medicine for most affliction
Think about how often the average person is actually painfully or debilitatingly ill. Maybe a couple of times in their entire life. You'd be a lot more likely to die of one of these illnesses in the medieval era but it wouldn't be a constant miserable existence like you seem to think it would be.
>they didn't have much entertainment
Songs, stories, drinking, socialising, wrestling, archery, other sports, reading if you're an egghead, dice, plays, tournaments, etc. Plus you'd probably be on speaking terms with most people in your town so there's not much danger of getting bored.
>it took an age to travel anywhere
For some people that's part of the appeal. Gradually reaching your destination, meeting new people and seeing new sights along the way. It's an adventure. Plus people living back then had nothing to compare it to. Everyone took the same amount of time to get where they needed to go.
>the food was probably not very good
What makes you think that? That's a silly thing to say
What a bunch of wank.
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Not the case but ok
Well we may get a taste of that ourselves soon rather than later. See "Antibiotic resistance".
>Not the case but ok
why are you quoting me
Yeah, Adam Smith wrote about this a bit. In today's workplace environment the operations that the average person is involved in have no immediately observable effect or meaning, which can encourage feelings like depression and loneliness.
Taking up a craft or creative hobby like metalwork or drawing or playing an instrument is probably the best way to alleviate this but not everyone is that way inclined.
This.
Funnily enough, both Max Horkheimer and Ted Kaczinsky had similar views on the matter.
They were somewhat spooked by them actually, and Saxon settlements tended to be at a distance from them. They didn't re inhabit the old City of London inside the Roman walls but set up their new town in Aldwych (i.e. "new town") to the west.
Here's the fragments of an early Saxon poem where a Saxon talks about (allegedly) the baths at Aquae Sulis/Bath.
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Battlements broken, giant’s work shattered.
Roofs are in ruin, towers destroyed,
Broken the barred gate, rime on the plaster,
walls gape, torn up, destroyed,
consumed by age. Earth-grip holds
the proud builders, departed, long lost,
and the hard grasp of the grave, until a hundred generations
of people have passed. Often this wall outlasted,
hoary with lichen, red-stained, withstanding the storm,
one reign after another; the high arch has now fallen.
The wall-stone still stands, hacked by weapons,
by grim-ground files.
Mood quickened mind, and the mason,
skilled in round-building, bound the wall-base,
wondrously with iron.
Bright were the halls, many the baths,
High the gables, great the joyful noise,
many the mead-hall full of pleasures.
Until fate the mighty overturned it all.
Slaughter spread wide, pestilence arose,
and death took all those brave men away.
Their bulwarks were broken, their halls laid waste,
the cities crumbled, those who would repair it
laid in the earth. And so these halls are empty,
and the curved arch sheds its tiles,
torn from the roof. Decay has brought it down,
broken it to rubble. Where once many a warrior,
high of heart, gold-bright, gleaming in splendour,
proud and wine-flushed, shone in armour,
looked on a treasure of silver, on precious gems,
on riches of pearl...
in that bright city of broad rule.
Stone courts once stood there, and hot streams gushed forth,
wide floods of water, surrounded by a wall,
in its bright bosom, there where the baths were,
hot in the middle.
Hot streams ran over hoary stone
into the ring
Happiness is a meme anyway, and it only exists in for very short periods of time in any person's life.
I'm going to assume that the same things made people happy then just like now, things like first love, having children and seeing them grow into good people, and perhaps living to see grandchildren.
Other than that, life is life, and it's mostly punctuated by suffering and boredom.
Life was simpler and more fulfilling, you cared about village gossip not some Armenians plastic buttox
Yes death was commonplace, but only for infants and the old normally, if there was plague you'd all die, but plague was rare
Visit some French village and see how tame everyone is
>Middle Ages were a time full of laughs.
Jacques Le Goff.
You don't need modern medicine to treat pain and common ailments, anglo-saxons had extensive knowledge of herbology and traditional medicine. They had about as much entertainment as we have now, in fact, their lives were probably more fun. They didn't have to work as much and they spent a lot of time drinking and partying. They had music and singing, plays, all kinds of games, and festivals. And actually germanic people liked to travel a lot, it was normal for young men to go on adventures. Their food would have been just fine, lots of fresh wild fruit, meat, bread, beer and wine
nah you're just a miserable joyless neckbeard. Most people don't live like that
>The Anglo-Saxons thought giants built the ruins
are you retarded?
You're lucky, guys. You have something to be proud of
people worked about 100 days per year, and only gave up a small amount of their crops/labor to the king
disease was worse, and people didn't eat as much, but they were more healthy from living on their feet all day close to nature, and from the weak people dying out
they also lived in religious ethnostates so there wasn't a total existential crisis
They didn't have porn sp they must of been suffering constantly!
t.kabbitalist abiest
money is a tool of the bourgeouise!
The ancient Greeks thought the same regarding Mycenean sites. They thought giant cyclopes built them.
People can toughen up, unlike you.
what?
That town does not look medieval. It's way too urban, more like renaissance.
All you have to do is look at how the rural Serbs were in the 90s
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Or the Afghans, or Arab Bedouins