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“why does suffering exist” because things can kill you and negative stimuli drives you away from those things which could kill you next question. this shit is easy buddah was a pussy
In archeology there are artifacts, which are items made or modified by humans, but there are also manuports, which haven’t been modified but are found far from any possible origin point and there’s no explanation besides somebody carried it there. Manuports include things like stones, fossils, and seashells, and have been found in deposits as much as three million years old.
So yeah, apparently the oldest human activity for which we have evidence is Picking Up Cool Rocks.
I was on a team that found a walrus tusk on a late IR2 site in central Jordan. We all knew what it was instantly, but just kind of sat there, telling ourselves stories about how it got there. It was plain and unmodified, and probably one of the coolest things the team ever found.
theres so many dishes in the world that are indistinguishable from each other aside from the shape , the salt ratio or some other dumb shit ans they all have different names ans everyone thinks they’re special for inventing them and I think that’s beautiful
there’s no culture on earth that doesn’t have their own empanada. they might not look like an empanada to the untrained eye. but they are
idk reading ancient literature and studying ancient societies makes you realize that a lot of problems we see as modern problems caused by modern systems are actually stupidly old.
That doesn’t make them right per se but humans are gonna cause human problems
3000 years ago there were also people struggling to make rent. There were also rich people going to court over petty legal disputes. There were also people annoyed at taxes and the state of public utilities. There were also people studying ancient civilizations. There were also people arguing that city life is for degenerates and we should return to nature.
A lot has changed since then obviously and not every society creates these exact problems or interests for themselves but the idea that a lot of our most basic problems are unique to the system we currently live in is kind of a short sighted way of looking at things.
People moved for new opportunities. People hated their bosses. People threw parties for their coworkers and had insomnia. People went on vacation. They traveled for work. They suffered from mental illness and addiction. They often failed to support each other through these things.
Very little is new under the sun. When trying to fix a problem do not assume that it is the natural state of humans to be free of that problem.
Other people will be like well this ancient society did this or this society didn’t do that.
Well those societies are exactly as human as the ones who created landlords. Societies adapt to the circumstances that they’re created in. Some environments and circumstances lead to people living in small egalitarian groups of yak herders living an almost carnivorous lifestyle while others lead to the creation of mega cities with surrounding agricultural communities living a mostly vegetarian lifestyle in a very strict social caste system. Neither of these things is any more or less a product of human nature than the other.
Many people from ancient times to now have attempted to design a perfect human society from scratch and with almost all of them it doesn’t take much thinking to poke holes in their design.
In my opinion at least the unfortunate truth is that there’s no one perfect organization system for a human society. Every society in every circumstance will have its own needs and its own societal issues to contend with. A lot of people will be quick to point out small hunter gatherer societies but even then when you look into the specifics of how those societies run, they’re all organized differently. There is no one perfect natural way that humans inherently organize themselves into.
This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try for a better society. Apathy is how things are allowed to get even worse. What I’m trying to get at is that a lot of these problems you might think are unique to the age you live in simply are not. A lot of people in the past were also convinced that their society was also the worst it had ever been and uniquely bad compared to the ones before it.
In truth, they’re all just human societies adjusting to their circumstances. And as a part of this society we’re in right now you have some say, however small, in how your society continues to adapt and the circumstances that it finds itself in.
Sometimes it’s not “your fault” but it’s still “your problem” because nobody else can fix it.
If your history of trauma causes you to respond to totally normal interactions as if you’re under threat of violence, you are likely to be a source of trauma for other people, and you should work on that.
It’s not your fault that you were traumatized, but you’re literally the only person who can fix you.
eventually one has to come to terms with the fact that “conceive of myself as a person capable of tackling difficult things” is an achievable goal toward which one can take concrete steps whereas “have things be easy” is Not
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