These people 125 years ago look so happy

[Butters]

Somebody colored in this footage from around the world from the early 1900s. 

It's fascinating footage. 

But the people look so happy? I'd be miserable if I had to live in those times. Why do they all look so happy? There must have been a much stronger sense of community back then. 

But just imagine the hard manual labor these people had to do just to survive. No automation, nothing that comes close to our modern standards of living, just an endless grind. 

Edited Tuesday at 07:25 PM by Butters

[Aaron p]

Mental health has declined considerably, it's cuz of the digital age boom. Smart phones and devices, creating false expectations and body dysmorphia or whatever it's called. Social skills atrophy, stage orange egotistical success oriented materialism causes moral degradation and it all kind of melds together to create hatred, isolation mental illness and pain. And it also polarised the pain/no pain categories. Meaning your more like to either have very little or a shit ton. 

Also it'll just take some time for humanity to learn how to adapt to it (digital age)

[Twentyfirst]

10 minutes ago, Aaron p said:

Mental health has declined considerably, it's cuz of the digital age boom. Smart phones and devices, creating false expectations and body dysmorphia or whatever it's called. Social skills atrophy, stage orange egotistical success oriented materialism causes moral degradation and it all kind of melds together to create hatred, isolation mental illness and pain. And it also polarised the pain/no pain categories. Meaning your more like to either have very little or a shit ton. 

Also it'll just take some time for humanity to learn how to adapt to it (digital age)

The log cabin era was the best. Just enough technology to get by but not enough to distract from the real world

[Rigel]

Look up pictures of suicide cases a few days before they committed it. People look happy even tho they aren’t. It’s almost expected that you fake happiness in society. And happiness is transient anyways. Those people were both happy & miserable just like you and I. Trading half a dollar for 50 cents.

[Ramasta9]

That's all they knew, no smart phones or devices gradually rendering the nervous system numb and severely depleting happy chemicals in the brain, no stresses of the modern world and media, using their bodies daily, out in nature, exercising, not looking down on a device, docile, disconnected, bio-robotic, no toxic and chemically-laden foods and junk we have today, far less radiation, far more simple lives, only responding to their basic needs and immediate reality around them... I could go on this list for hours, why isn't this common sense by now? i guess most people are still under the spell of these very things... Isn't rocket science, most people think they are normal but in reality normal today is really a disorder, a disease that is so subtle because its been so gradual that very few have noticed. I just watched the movie Sci-Fi Ulgies and it was quite spot on with how the mainstream world is becoming today, that people are losing whats natural and freedom is gradually being given up to a digitized life.

[UnbornTao]

Consider that being happy has always been a possible condition for humans throughout history. 

You think that circumstances determine happiness but that might not be the case. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

By what metric do you judge they are happy? Because some of them smile, grin and point at the camera as it was recording them? People from the 3d world slums with ghasthly conditions would do the same thing today, even the ones addicted to toluene lol

[Aaron p]

33 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

By what metric do you judge they are happy? Because some of them smile, grin and point at the camera as it was recording them? People from the 3d world slums with ghasthly conditions would do the same thing today, even the ones addicted to toluene lol

 this metric seems to incorporate regionality

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40375174/

 

[Butters]

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Consider that being happy has always been a possible condition for humans throughout history. 

You think that circumstances determine happiness but that might not be the case. 

Interesting thought. So increasing quality of life, advances in medicine, social matters, spiral dynamics doesn't increase happiness? Then what's the point of those things? 

I wouldn't want to live in any time in the past to be honest, it just seems like a bad deal. But 100 years into the future, wired up to some VR glasses 24/7 like I'm in the Matrix? Probably not. So I guess I have a current-time bias. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:46 PM by Butters

[UnbornTao]

1 hour ago, Butters said:

Interesting thought. So increasing quality of life, advances in medicine, social matters, spiral dynamics doesn't increase happiness? Then what's the point of those things? 

I wouldn't want to live in any time in the past to be honest, it just seems like a bad deal. But 100 years into the future, wired up to some VR glasses 24/7 like I'm in the Matrix? Probably not. So I guess I have a current-time bias. 

Better survival conditions.

This makes my point - you assume that happiness depends on circumstances. 

Are you talking about happiness, or something else - perhaps getting what you want? 

[Hojo]

I find it hilarious how back in the day there were men running around in suits in the woods all of them dirty as hell.

Its like they had the clothing before the housing. They were like animals in 3 peice suits.

Edited Wednesday at 08:28 PM by Hojo

[Butters]

21 hours ago, Hojo said:

They were like animals in 3 peice suits.

You should watch Wolf of Wallstreet 😁

[UnbornTao]

23 hours ago, Hojo said:

I find it hilarious how back in the day there were men running around in suits in the woods all of them dirty as hell.

Its like they had the clothing before the housing. They were like animals in 3 peice suits.

What has changed?

Edited 5 hours ago by UnbornTao