this used to tank my mental health so bad, just constantly feeling guilty cause im not working and achieving shit like my peers, but then i realized that it's all bullshit and you can just enjoy your life instead
dont get me wrong, self-improvement is important, but hustle culture is toxic as fuck and makes people feel like shit about themselves. some people dont give a shit about careers and ambitions and just want to vibe
That doesn't mean it didn't exist before modern society though, so saying that an individual would or would not have had it in some other time period is meaningless because it still exists in nature.
Yes, some people would have still suffered from the disease, just not at the rate that people do today. I don't agree that that distinction is meaningless, but I do agree that the discovery of insulin was a triumph to be thankful for and proud of.
It's meaningless because my original point was that modern society lets tons of people live that otherwise would not, and to say that civilization was better before without acknowledging that comes off as unironic anprim "return to monkey and let natural selection sort out the weak" bullshit. Even if that's not what you meant, you can't just hand-wave everything away as "disabled people are mostly the result of modern society anyway".
Not as meaningless as this conversation. 🙁
Edit: I meant "Not as meaningless as it would be to continue this conversation any further."
we got a real brain genius over here. you're just repeating my comment as if it was your own thought now.
I apologize if I've offended you, comrade.
It's fine. It's just that this unironic "people were better off before modern society" take pisses me off because it's privileged bullshit that doesn't apply to tons of people. And then to have people respond with "well ackshually disabled people are only disabled because of modern society too" with only minimal evidence to back that up, or implying its the fault of people's poor diets when there's no evidence for that in the case of type one diabetics, comes off as condescending. Normally I'd just downvote and move on but since downvoting is disabled I have to actually yell at people I disagree with now.
I'm not trying to blame poor people or people's diets, I know lots of people are just trying to do that, and it's shitty. I'm trying to point the blame at industrial pollution and the alienating and sickening environment at large that we've created for ourselves, because I think it sets the stage for an argument for the radical transformation of society, i.e. communism.
I'm not an anprim and I don't believe in rejecting modern technology, except for cars (all hail the train gang). I don't believe that criticizing civilization from a materialist perspective is any more privileged than criticizing capitalism.
It's not about what you believe, it's about what you said. And what you said wasn't a legitimate criticism of modern civilization. Your heart is in the right place but this ain't it, chief.
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