Ulysses; "Recorded History" refers to those portions of History for which we have written records & sources. At what time, and in what kinds of societies was writing invented?
This is an important thing consider; because it doesn't include societies, or peoples that didn't write down their histories. In which things probably were different. But we don't descend from those societies, and we don't follow their rules now do we?
I don't see how that's supposed to convince me that it's somehow impossible to say that online dating has gotten less pleasant and more frustrating for those still doing it in the years since it became normalized and accepted.
I also don't really see the value or the purpose for making the "nothing really actually changes meaningfully ever" claim except as a long winded way of saying "shut up, stop complaining. Only complaining about complaining is allowed."
Well within recorded history things sometimes get worse or better in specific ways for specific people doing specific things over time. That's a far more believable take than "nothing ever changes ever, therefore no complaining is allowed, except complaining about complaining" to me.
There is a finite and fixed quality of bullshit in the cosmos and while there are local variations it is uniform when viewed from a sufficient distance.
Yeah yeah, but viewing that far out means many details and specific instances and individual experiences are lost. To summarize, it's a giant, almost unfathomably giant, thought terminating cliche that's generally used to try to get people to shut up and never complain about anything (except complaining itself). :morshupls:
Everything has always sucked, for all of recorded history, because class society has existed for all of recorded history. Next question.
Nothing ever changes ever and everything is exactly as good and bad as it has ever been. :doubt:
Ulysses; "Recorded History" refers to those portions of History for which we have written records & sources. At what time, and in what kinds of societies was writing invented?
This is an important thing consider; because it doesn't include societies, or peoples that didn't write down their histories. In which things probably were different. But we don't descend from those societies, and we don't follow their rules now do we?
:wtf-am-i-reading:
I don't see how that's supposed to convince me that it's somehow impossible to say that online dating has gotten less pleasant and more frustrating for those still doing it in the years since it became normalized and accepted.
I also don't really see the value or the purpose for making the "nothing really actually changes meaningfully ever" claim except as a long winded way of saying "shut up, stop complaining. Only complaining about complaining is allowed."
unrecorded history is communism
Well within recorded history things sometimes get worse or better in specific ways for specific people doing specific things over time. That's a far more believable take than "nothing ever changes ever, therefore no complaining is allowed, except complaining about complaining" to me.
idk i'm just interpreting
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There is a finite and fixed quality of bullshit in the cosmos and while there are local variations it is uniform when viewed from a sufficient distance.
Yeah yeah, but viewing that far out means many details and specific instances and individual experiences are lost. To summarize, it's a giant, almost unfathomably giant, thought terminating cliche that's generally used to try to get people to shut up and never complain about anything (except complaining itself). :morshupls:
I'm just making a joke riffing on entropy, I don't really think that.
Yeah, good, okay. :bernie-pout:
I'm definitely thinking otherwise for some of the smug emissions in this thread. :lea-why:
so what the universe being big doesn't make our lives less meaningful any more than your life is more meaningful from being in a small space
I'm making an entropy joke I don't really believe that.
yeah but that trite pop nihilism is not uncommonly held as sincere belief