Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by AnonymousPlanet on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:31AM
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> Everything's always been unstable, people sometimes just take a slightly rose-tinted view of the past.
No. For the most of history people could look decades into the past and be quite confident that things would be the same decades in the future. The only aspects that mostly changed were local leaders and maybe some fashions. A farmer was a farmer and a carpenter was a carpenter and their sons and grandsons likely too.
Ever changing times with regards to technology and professions is a rather modern thing.
When was stable period, exactly? I'm 40; the only semi-stable bit I can think of in my lifetime was a few years in the 90s (referred to, sometimes unironically, as "the end of history" at the time, before history decided to come out of retirement).
Everything's always been unstable, people sometimes just take a slightly rose-tinted view of the past.