A Few Things I Observed While Hanging Out At A Lake That Are Absurd When Contrasted Against Most Of Human History
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We tend to view the reality we’re born into as “normal.” We inherit a version of the world and get used to it quickly. For most of human history, that made sense. In 1,000 AD, your life was not going to be that different from the life of your grandparents or their grandparents. If your dad was a carpenter, you’d probably be a carpenter too. You didn’t really need to contextualize where you sat in history since so little was bound to change. Things changed even less during our hunter-gatherer days (which, as a friendly reminder, was the
A Few Things I Observed While Hanging Out At A Lake That Are Absurd When Contrasted Against Most Of Human History
A Few Things I Observed While Hanging Out At…
A Few Things I Observed While Hanging Out At A Lake That Are Absurd When Contrasted Against Most Of Human History
We tend to view the reality we’re born into as “normal.” We inherit a version of the world and get used to it quickly. For most of human history, that made sense. In 1,000 AD, your life was not going to be that different from the life of your grandparents or their grandparents. If your dad was a carpenter, you’d probably be a carpenter too. You didn’t really need to contextualize where you sat in history since so little was bound to change. Things changed even less during our hunter-gatherer days (which, as a friendly reminder, was the