This one cuts deep: The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
The one thing I find most intriguing about the Fediverse is that people have or find revelations about why modern life is such a struggle all the time.
100%. and even worse for those experiencing racism or other forms of discrimination— they don’t have the large support system AND the rules of the rest of society don’t apply to them.
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Yep. Every musician is now a producer, an engineer, a mixer, a masterer, an A&R rep, a manager, a social media manager, a non-music content creator, etc. And by necessity!
It's weird how instead of having actual support networks again what most "RETURN" types mean is "let's roll back women's rights two hundred years and starve every urban area".
I'm only tired because nobody is able/willing to do anything *CORRECTLY,* which means I have to to the job over, which takes longer than my doing it myself, right, the first time. So, why do double work? #GenXers
you mean how I feel like a total idiot because I'm building and running my own saas and struggling with international tax issues that I can't solve by myself.
It's lonely and arduous. Even in my mother's day, more people stayed close to home all their lives. They had big family dinners and helped with each other's children. But when we were grown, my cousins were spread all over the US.
Damn, that's profound. This one cuts deep: The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
on the other hand, there’s far more things that we used to have to do for ourselves, from growing food to building our own houses, from making and mending clothes to the education of our children.
has this also something to do with people (particularly women) refusing to do free labour? And a lot of this community support was provided through churches which people are opting out of.
I used to the think "it takes a village to raise a child" was a statement about the diverse skills and community ethos required to raise healthy adults. 2 kids later, I take it quite literally.
@FaithfullJohn i remember years ago realizing that a printer was some professional downtown and not a machine you had to learn to operate in your own home. and many other examples like this.
I feel this, having two young kids! But in a pre-modern condition I’d likely be dead (c-section), constantly worried about having enough food, and living in the same house as my in-laws (to get said support). Overall I will take the modern condition.
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We are individualized, isolated, lonely.
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in reply to Earthshine • • •"people historically" have been incredibly diverse in behavior and modes of social organization.
we've been doing all sorts of crazy things we don't even know about for the past 300k years- and those we do know about, we hardly understand.
normality is an illusion, there is no ideal primordial condition to retvrn to.
build your own condition.
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Single parents like me without a social network sit around wondering why we struggle to come up to scratch? Whew.
ALL THE TIME.
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in reply to Earthshine • • •On the other hand, historical people didn't have antibiotics, so a large number of children died in the 1st few years of life
Also no anesthetics, so surgery was pretty painfull
Also, at least after agriculture, they spent most of their lives in back breaking toil just to have enough calories to stave off starvation
but other then that, petty idyllic
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