Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
by ceilingcorner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:00PM
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Black Death and Mongol Invasions were probably worse on a per-person basis for those affected than even a realistic nuclear war would be.
Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
by sudosysgen on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:46PM
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Absolutely not, not even close. 99.9% of the population dying within a few years is not comparable to a disease that killed ~10% of the population and a series of invasions that killed at most a single percent.
"Societal cohesion" doesn't do too much to help us survive crop failures and wet bulb temperatures over 35C.
Aside from that, I think you might misunderstand your causal arrows a bit. It is fair more likely that massive industrialization and late state capitalism led to a society that valued the individual over the social unit, rather than that a sudden desire to be individuals sprung up in people's hearts and made a mess of the world.