Did we really progress as society?

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>progress

>>3167289
go outside get some fresh air, take a walk, talk to someone, maybe you'll feel better

>>3167302
>stage 1: denial

Things are pretty much uniformly better than in the past. What sort of imaginary past do you want to return to?

>>3167306
op posting his gloomy opinion is a pretty obvious cry for help

>>3167313
Did you even read the post?

>>3167320
>stage 1: denial

>>3167324
I like things like human rights and democracy. People had to invent that shit. That's progress.

>>3167324
Working a boring 9-5 is in no way comparable to the life of a serf. Don't delude yourself.

>>3167289
It depends on the definition of progress. Social hierarchy never changed. Not even in the Soviet Union

>>3167328
>democracy
Lmao

>>3167328
>(((human rights)))

It's just human nature OP. It's kinda like Capitalism, without technological progress everything's just a race to the bottom

>>3167289
You have infinite free access to all the world's knowledge at any time, it's never been easier to freely engage in whatever crazy unimaginable ventures that medieval people could only dream of.

you have been drinking too many r9k memes if you are fixated on the midlife crisis

/his/ is not /pol/ with dates as we say a lot, and it's also not /r9k/ with dates

nothing you're talking about can be argued historically just philosophically

in a caste based society, it's usually illegal to try and make your situation better (or worse) depending on what caste you are in. While it's not perfect, it's at least not illegal for a peasant to try and make a decent living for himself.

>>3167332
>Working a boring 9-5 is in no way comparable to the life of a serf.
That's correct, but I doubt you in the way you meant to.

>>3167411
Philosophy is part of humanities, which are part of /his/, you dense buttblooding faggot

Yeah it's pretty meaningless and empty, mass literacy and general nihilism and atomization make it worse, I have no doubt in my mind the average feudal peasant was far more happier than the average modern day wage slave.

>but muh indicators! muh life expectancy and quality of life measurements and availability of medication!

Fuck off you don't get it. Never will.

>>3167289
>And at an even deeper level, the more we discover about human evolution, the more illusory certain ideas of progress become. In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari points out that hunter-gatherers were actually up to six inches taller than their more “civilized” successors; their diets were much healthier; infectious disease was much rarer; they worked less and goofed off more than we do. They didn’t even have much shorter lives: If you survived the enormous hazards of childhood, you could reach the age of 60, and some lived into their 80s (and stayed within their tribes rather than being shunted off into lonely rest homes). Famines and plagues — the great catastrophes of human history — were less common. Harari notes another paradox: Over hundreds of millennia, we have overcome starvation … but now are more likely to die of obesity than hunger. Happiness? Globally, suicide rates keep rising.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/andrew-sullivan-why-the-reactionary-right-must-be-taken-seriously.html

Hedonistic treadmill. No matter how good things get, you'll always be unhappy. This applies on a macro, intergenerational scale too.