Burnwinter wrote:
Biggus wrote:
You're just talking about policies that were in effect a various times in various societies none of them endure forever, I'm talking about the way we perceive the world.
Everything has changed except the way we think.
But the point is that changes all the time. The way we think about all of the issues I mentioned, the role of work in life, the family, the household—that's all changed hugely throughout history, so much so that the past is a foreign country. It's changed before, it's changing now, and it will change again.
Get onto Samuel Pepys' diary, you'll find out that a well-off bureaucrat in 17th century London used to sleep with his wife, his kids, his pets and his servants all in one big bed.
Well I know people who do sleep with their wife kids and dogs all in one big bed.
Again you're just talking about social mores.
We don't change the way we think, it is sill driven by first our primal instincts, our search for food love security, mistrust of strangers, the opportunity to get something for nothing, the tried and trusted way, people 100,000 years ago would be familiar with these thoughts, our bodies and minds have changed little since then.
If you want to see how much we are ruled by primal instinct have a look at someone as they swat away a wasp while swerving a half tonne of metal all over the road, they sure have prioritised the danger.
Again I stress that you and I and many other people analyse the situation deeper but we are in the distinct minority yet our vote counts just the same as a devotee of the giant flying spaghetti monster.
