Quote Originally Posted by Just Vuk Again View Post
People are people and always will be people. People have been made to believe that they are incredibly more enlightened and civilized than the barbarians of the past or of other cultures plenty of times before (think Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc). The only difference is that living has become so much easier that people now adays are worth a heck of a lot less than the people before them. If they put themselves in context it would be one thing, but people now adays think that they are enlightened, intelligent, moral entities who are so far above the primitives who came before them. They do not realize just how little they know of the lives of those who came before them and their own lives. How would they perform if they were sent back to the 1800s? To the 1700s? To the 1600s? None of them would survive. People now adays are less industrious, for the most part less educated then people in some past time periods, and certainly have to think less than most people from most past time periods. They have many more conveniences and have much less responsibility. Sure, there are unique challenges to modern people, including a much faster paced life, but overall life is much easier and much fairer than it used to be. Not because of us, but because of those people who came before us who we are so quick to condemn. They are the ones who built the pedestal we now stand on, and we have risen so high and grown so comfortable that we cease to build it, and indeed, cease to maintain it. Much as other great civilizations that have risen and fallen, we are getting to the point where we have grown completely content with life and ceased to maintain the foundation that everything we enjoy is built on, and when we do try to grow, we try to grow in a different direction and build upwards without a foundation. We will collapse, but we are so much higher (as far as the comfort of our living style and our distance from real life) than those who came before us (no thanks to us) that we will fall all the harder, and probably not be able to pick ourselves up. If we have any strength at all, we will find the ground, reality, on which we fall to be so foriegn and so dreadfull that we will not know what to do. It is not that we are anymore stupid today than we were 5000 years ago, simply that we have a lot more to lose for our stupidity and will have a much smaller chance of recovering.

I'll leave you to decifer my cryptic post. :P
More educated? You joking?

They sure were barbaric, not only were they enjoying God's will to slaughter everyone who disagreed with them, they had no flushing toilets.