I disagree with this. Although it’s difficult to guess how people thought back then when they didn’t have all these marvels of today, it’s still really easy to appreciate the things themselves. Things related to cultural evolution, like basic human rights, art, modern goverments, those are a bit more difficult to see, but still, with little thought, it’s easy to see much of the sheer awesomeness they have. It’s also easy to see how things could easily be so much worse, and usually it’s easy to check from history that yeah, things have been very much worse.
Though much of this quote is about how awesome things are in our world, and I totally agree with that.
I guess that might depend on the person. For me, even though I can appreciate things like television and electricity on an intellectual level, I can’t really appreciate them on an emotional level the way I can appreciate things like ubiquitous mobile phones or Wikipedia that weren’t there when I was a kid.
I disagree with this. Although it’s difficult to guess how people thought back then when they didn’t have all these marvels of today, it’s still really easy to appreciate the things themselves. Things related to cultural evolution, like basic human rights, art, modern goverments, those are a bit more difficult to see, but still, with little thought, it’s easy to see much of the sheer awesomeness they have. It’s also easy to see how things could easily be so much worse, and usually it’s easy to check from history that yeah, things have been very much worse.
Though much of this quote is about how awesome things are in our world, and I totally agree with that.
I guess that might depend on the person. For me, even though I can appreciate things like television and electricity on an intellectual level, I can’t really appreciate them on an emotional level the way I can appreciate things like ubiquitous mobile phones or Wikipedia that weren’t there when I was a kid.