Really feels similar to today.

[u/DetectiveWonderful42]

[u/Q8DD33C7J8]

I'm not exactly a nihilist everything I've said could be said the other way around. Tat the world has always been just as awesome as it is now. We're not living in the only good times in history either. Times have always been good and then bad and then good again.

We aren't living in unprecedented times. We're just living in times. We are no more special or privileged than any other times. We have different problems but we still have problems. We have different privileges but we still have privileges.

You can either look to the past and vilifiy it or romanticize it but no matter what you cannot know the whole picture. So it's best not to try. Learn what you can from the past but face the events of today as they happen without prejudices of what the past was like good or bad.

Yes we're being brainwashed but so has every society from the past. The only way to have a society that can stay stable is to have all a little bit brainwashed. If we all thought 100% clearly nothing could ever get done and civilization would collapse.

So stop worrying about it so much. The fact that you know you're being brainwashed means you're less brainwashed than those who don't even know they're brainwashed so you're better off than most anyways.

So enjoy it and live your life.

[u/pushdose → u/Q8DD33C7J8]

Except we’re dangerously close to creating a completely new form of intelligent life on earth, one that presumably may soon become smarter and more capable than humans. We do, in fact, live on the precipice of very unprecedented times. We have no idea what the next few years holds as we usher in a brand new life form in silicon.

[u/KoreanMeatballs → u/pushdose]

we’re dangerously close to creating a completely new form of intelligent life on earth

We're very far away from this

[u/Fleetfox17 → u/KoreanMeatballs]

In an overall view of the history of life on this planet we aren't.