It’s ridiculous that some modern people think ancient people were stupid

A person from 3000 years ago could tell you what plants to eat and what not to, what cured and what would cause death. They could make a stretcher quickly or build shelter at short notice. They could navigate by the sun and stars.

Where as 21st century people cannot do anything without googling it first, and can be too self obsessed to try.

I suppose this is why I love reading history. All the big adventures were happening then. By comparison we are incredibly dull.

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

Well according to Darwinian evolution we are falling up and getting better with every passing generation. Reality points exactly the opposite way. We are getting weaker and less creative as we rely on someone else to figure it out. I remember reading in a novel about someone using an atlatl and having no idea what one looked like I made one of my own. It worked very very well. A number of years later I saw a picture of one It didn't look like the one I made at all but both were the same in effect. A very fast arrow.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 ... "less creative" - well, we can't and shouldn't generalise, but I'd add to that "with less initiative so more demanding" (of others) and "less patient" (too many relate time of interactions to the immediacy of the Internet).

Why less creative? Many reasons but I think one is that many now have no opportunity or wish to learn to do anything physically creative, so cannot put their ideas into being.