Great concept. Rousseau was terribly wrong, humans have always done unspeakable things to each other, whether tempered by society or not. That being said, Western civilization has come a heck of a long way, and we've got it better today than any human since dinosaurs. Implication being those humans had it made hanging out with dinosaurs!
Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with him, either. I tend to lean to the "Humans are natually self-serving" angle. It's biology, IMO. We can pretend we're more than animals all we want, but at the end of the day, we're wired to survive and reproduce.
Great concept. Rousseau was terribly wrong, humans have always done unspeakable things to each other, whether tempered by society or not. That being said, Western civilization has come a heck of a long way, and we've got it better today than any human since dinosaurs. Implication being those humans had it made hanging out with dinosaurs!
Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with him, either. I tend to lean to the "Humans are natually self-serving" angle. It's biology, IMO. We can pretend we're more than animals all we want, but at the end of the day, we're wired to survive and reproduce.
Exactly. We can be tamed with incentive structures, but the caveman exists in us!
Nice post. Learn from the past, but don’t live in it.
love it. Thanks for reading + commenting!