progress is the internet, the computer you use to post on the internet, the common protocols used to facilitate that communication, the long glass fibers used to transfer that information, the routers, switches, servers, and so on that transmits the common language we speak to communicate just so I can call you a fucking dumbass.
eskimos ain't doin' that shit.
there has been genocide after genocide. there has been policide after policide as well. we've wiped out villages and wiped out nations. but we've also conquered polio, smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and numerous other things. we've learned to fly. we've built giant worthless shit based on science that 200 years ago would have been regarded as magic. and you would have been burnt at the stake for it.
civilization isn't pretty. I'm not saying it is. but one thing is for certain: it beats the hell out of living in mud hut and eating dirt. in the dark. and in the cold.
you're criticizing white people and western civilization for all the problems of the world and you're not even aware that you're a product of it. bully for you. hooray.
progress is moving forward. progress is knowing more today than we knew yesterday. progress is having the technology today to save lives that even ten years ago would be forfeit. you can glorify the savages of yesteryear if you want, but until you go live there an STFU you're nothing but the equivalent of a white guy with dreads.
A really cool computer all protocoled up until the power goes out. Then you are burning servers for a little extra heat. While computers and the internet are good tools it's useless without power and acts as more as a time sink and a diversion from important matters more than anything anyway.
Conquered? Boy are you fooled. There are outbreaks of most of those illnesses all the time. I come across the reports when I'm tracking H5N1 across the planet. Spot on. Learned to fly. If man was meant to fly then man would be born with feathers.
Not criticizing. Just stating facts that apparently struck a nerve. Be it ignorance or guilt is not my problem.
The unlearned always make the mistake of assuming just because a culture was ancient they were primitive. It pains me when I come across those types. They are ignorant and have no reason to be ignorant.
Living like times past? That's when I was most happy. I woke in the forest. Would find food. Rest. Find food. Explored wherever I wanted. Ate food. Rested. Rinse and repeat. If the weather sucked in Norfolk, Virginia then Miami, FL here I would come. When Miami got too humid look out SF. When there was too much LSD in SF then rehab time in the woods of North Carolina.
It was awesome. I think folks would benefit if everyone took time out to find themselves instead of worrying about finding the remote or their cell phone.
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