Why does everyone usually imagine people of the past as being

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>>2780666

>>2780666
They don't. Is this a trick question?

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>>2780666
because they think the past was only grey, neutral colored misery full of hardships.

>gonna sit for 5 hrs if not days for someone to draw me
>should i grin like a retard or look serious
>now everyone thinks ancients were humorless

>>2780717
As someone who regularly draws and posed for artists as well I can attest to this. Smiles are painful to hold.

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>>2780666

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>>2780666
This is from the early 18th century.

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>>2780666
Smiling in photos/for paintings was an uncommon practice in days of old, which is why people think everyone was serious back then

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>>2780677
Classic. Love that man.

>>2780677
Love this guy

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This was actually serious, but c'mon. How could they NOT think people would make fun of this?

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This is very difficult to say while keeping a straight face. I wonder who can, because indeed it is hard.

" ", you say, while grinning like Voltaire did. " ", it is its name. But then, thinking of " ", you think about all the Emperors who were excommunicated. You think about all those who tried to fuck with the pope. You think about the wars of religion and how many of them ended up as protestant heretics.

But then, the funniest is coming: " ". Yes, now, you cannot contain your laughter. " ", it is called despite the fact that this " " body is standing on Germania, a land so harsh and poor that the Legions of Rome refused to set foot on it. A germanic and barbaric people, yes, but still calling themselves " ".

And now, here is the end of the fun: " ". Now you fell on the ground, laughing so hard that you cannot breathe." " , a body made of dozens of petty duchies and counties, all fighting for themselves, giving strange names to their position, full of Grand-Dukes or Archdukes." "who will stay between Poland and France, while the great powers of Europe will create colonies all around the world.

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>>2782296
ALL THE TIME

>>2780717
fpbp

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>>2780758
Lads

>>2780666
>Why does everyone usually imagine people of the past as being humorless and always serious? Were they?
They certainly were rational, intelligent, and far more goal-oriented/occupied.
Human intellect hasn't increased in the last thousands of years, now that we have so many humans, which have little purpose individually, are directionless, and have a lot of free time on their hands, we'll have a lot more idiots and bored people walking around, especially on the internet, which is why we focus on petty things and topics nowadays that would be seen as a waste of time or outright stupid in the past.

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What you said isn't true. Literacy rates have increased dramatically, everybody and their grandma has a college or trade degree, the internet and all the information on it exists and is readily there for people to use. People have gotten dramatically smarter compared to 200 years ago.

>>2782983
He said rational and intelligent, not knowledgable

>>2783017
Well idiots always have been a majority

>>2780713
Much like regular life

I imagine Louis the sun king was a grade A troll irl

>>2780666
There was a big change in the frequency of depiction (once in a lifetime portrait of an important person versus everyone taking selfies every four hours), in the idea of seriousness (to an extent moderns are expected to be goofier than any previous generation), and the general accessibility of tragedy (infant mortality alone illustrates this).

>>2782983
Ae you familiar with the research arguing that we know more things but can do less, or that Victorians were more clever?