I invite everyone who holds this opinion to go do some reenactment. The earlier the better, but really, anything pre 1800s will do for an idea of what life was before modernity.
When you have to work to eat and survive you quickly stop giving a shit that you’re “working.” It doesn’t feel like work to chop wood all day knowing it’s gonna keep you from shivering or freezing all night.
That doesn’t make it easy, it makes it less deflating. Work feels more like “work” when you’re just doing it to make some other asshole rich.
From my casual reading of history and what was invented/discovered at what times in different areas, life before, say, 1830-1850 would be unrecognizable to us. Hell, drop me back in my teens and I’d struggle to remember how to navigate the 80s! In just 55-years, I’ve seen such radical changes I sometimes feel swamped by history and tech.
I invite everyone who holds this opinion to go do some reenactment. The earlier the better, but really, anything pre 1800s will do for an idea of what life was before modernity.
Do they have any hunter gatherer reenactment societies?
When you have to work to eat and survive you quickly stop giving a shit that you’re “working.” It doesn’t feel like work to chop wood all day knowing it’s gonna keep you from shivering or freezing all night.
That doesn’t make it easy, it makes it less deflating. Work feels more like “work” when you’re just doing it to make some other asshole rich.
Apples to oranges comparing the early modern era, anywhere back to classical days, to prehistory.
It is. Being a hunter gatherer is significantly worse, but you won’t find many reenactors who will go for a weekend of prehistory.
I disagree if you are claiming being a hunter gatherer was worse than being a farmer. As do a lot of archeologists. For the reasons I already stated.
Farmers are at the mercy of the rulers of that region. They can’t just leave. They become slaves.
Maybe we’d see more caveman reenacting if mammoth burgers were a possibility
From my casual reading of history and what was invented/discovered at what times in different areas, life before, say, 1830-1850 would be unrecognizable to us. Hell, drop me back in my teens and I’d struggle to remember how to navigate the 80s! In just 55-years, I’ve seen such radical changes I sometimes feel swamped by history and tech.