Ok listen up cucks , I want a real debate. I was asking myself this question and wanted to have opinions from different races, religions , cultures ( im a berber aka sandnigger)
Do you think technical progress has made us happier? Dont you sometimes think that maybe ancient people were maybe happier than us? I know that technical progress is ont thing and how you use it is another. Do you wish sometimes that you lived in another time and why. Sorry if my english is bad its not my mother tongue
Camden Torres
Anyone?
Oliver Nelson
If anything I think it has made us feel worse off. Even if it's untrue all you ever see is other people living it up on social media, plus degeneracy is at an all time high.
Ethan Cook
I won't go into the pros and cons since those can be very subjective, and this subject in particular can be too expansive to create an informative and concise post.
Personally I'd like a mix of the two. The advantages of this age's medical superiority and knowledge of the physical world grant us many luxuries and opportunities not offered by the past, but those same limitations and constraints forced human behaviour to be less autonomous and more cohesive during the old days, offering what seems like a greater sense of unity and possibility of prosperity.
I do feel that in today's times we are neglecting our social instincts which were vital to survival and success, because it seems convenient for the individuals to do so.
Kayden Morris
I Think that we (human societies) havent really used the technical progress achieved in the last centuries the best way possible. And I dont know if he way we have used them to build new societies have made us happier generally or not compared to our ancestors. From my researches , the doubt is clear
Joseph White
Exactly my thought. I think we can all agree that medical advances were to the benefit of humanity. But on the other side when I think of factory workers in industrial europe during the 19th century I wonder wether they were happier than their peasant farmers. I dont know if technical progress has been for the worst or the best. I sens that the modern man is quite unhappy
Bentley Ward
>made us happier no >happier than us yes >lived in another time yes, fewer jewish influence
Carter Jackson
Are you so sure of your idea. I myself tend to go for that idea. For example I read very serious anthropologic studies made my serious and honest researchers on the life of the people from my region before the 1960s and sometimes I just cant help but wish to go live with them even if everything wasnt perfect. But I dont know if this is just fantasy or maybe real
Christian Morgan
Our quality of life has gone up exponentially but our actual mental happiness has likely stayed the same as we get used to our surroundings. This is why poor people don't have a higher rate of suicide than rich. In fact it's often the opposite. t. Mexibro
Liam Rodriguez
Are you sure it stayed the same ? From what I read , people from pre industrial societies seemed less anxious nervous than us and suffered less of great moral breakdowns and illnesses like depressions ect even if life wasnt all perfect and far from it
Julian Gomez
Technical progress makes us happier once the technology is mastered. When any technology is new it's dangerous but can be mastered. Once mastered its called conservative. Sometimes it's never mastered and instead discarded But there's no way to know beforehand. You have to go through the unpredictable stage or else you'd never create new technology which does, eventually become a reliable benefit. Just like taking a chance of doing something risky in a business you own.
Wyatt Harris
happiness levels out according to something i read. so get happy it just drops back to the base line. so probably be the same no matter when you lived.
Caleb Rodriguez
I think scientifical and technical progress is neutral. But we choose to use them the way we want it. The way we use them may not be to the benefit of most of society. Who chooses the way we use them today? The powerful and who are the powerful? Those who own money. And what do they want? Do they want to benefit the people or do they want more money? If they put profit before anything else arent they doing us harm?
Julian Murphy
I would agree with you on the basis that I am not entirely happy with the way things are currently going. The reason being that my future seems uncertain and stagnant which can be the conditions of a decline in progress for the society in which I am a part of. I think humanity as a whole is generally uncertain where we are heading.
William Mitchell
Nice tripcode, faggot. All you've done is prove that this place is now firmly part and parcel the property of the over-niggers.
Rest assured that I would post an appropriate image on this heretofore image board, except that posting images apparently isn't allowed right now.
Jayden Sanders
they want to change society. just for straight profit is much better.
Robert Phillips
Yeah, dude its called introspection we all have lived in other times and you can access your souls memories if you are in the right state of mind. Organized religion separates us from such introspection then places importance on objective ideas. Continuing forth with technology might be scary but science has brought us this far and were finding that inhibiting and ignoring progress and foresight only causes negativity in the world as a whole.
Juan Sullivan
I didnt understand what you mean
Tyler Davis
technical progress has made us more comfortable but happiness has nothing to do with surroundings, all is happening within.
Eli Sanders
Scientific and technical progress is driven by war, and since we're going to have a very satisfying one with China very soon. we're about to get a fresh burst, at the gooks' expense. Feels good, man.
David Peterson
It has made me happier in certain circumstances, but overall has made me less happy. Happier in certain advances, such as medicine and things like better cars and better machines, which help make things more efficient and cheap. However, with advents such as the internet, But I think that where we live now, with such advances in things in the healthcare field I don't think any other time would be suffice. But I definitely have problems with the overuse and over-reliance on technology.
Caleb Carter
Im totally not against scientifical and technical progress. I just feel that (((we))) have made very bad choices on the way we use them to change our world and we are going to pay it hard. I feel like (((we))) arent caring so much on the morality behind our use. And I feel like we have regressed in terms of happiness, personal freedom compared to our predecessors
Lincoln Torres
Comfort=/= happiness But Kings of 200 years ago would give their riches for just some of the amenities we possess in the first world.
Juan Robinson
define what you think is quality of life?
Ayden Johnson
I think this whole thread may be an entire new type of shitposting.
Is Sup Forums officially kill now?
Benjamin Flores
yes it's dead. youv'e posted this a million times.
Adrian Thompson
To make myself a better idea I would like to know if Would you rather live in the center of new york with all the basic necessities Or would you rather live on a farm in the countryside of your country (with all the basic necessities)
David Allen
is the happiness in better cars and machines or are you capable of creating it only trough those things? I am trying redpill you here, time to stop chasing the "something" outside when everything is within. Search sadghuru from youtube.
Jackson Gutierrez
Why do you say this? One thread with minimal posts, shilling, trolling, and shitposting and you think the entire board is kill? Join us, leaf. Pull up your chair and use your brain for once.
Luke Howard
I think it was all good and dandy before the rise of social media. Back in the day before everyone was glaring down at their phone screens and being bombared with "quit smoking" ads, you just went down the pub every other day with your mates and had a good time. Then blair outlawed smoking in pubs and facebook kept everybody disinterested in what was going on around them. A return to the years of thatcher would be glorious.
Lincoln Gray
>t. sockpuppet.jpg You disgust me.
Ian Ramirez
Not at all, I just wanted an unpolitically correct debate on something I was thinking hard about
Henry Diaz
No, only cultural and moral progress makes us happier. Sustained and fruitful technological progress will follow.
Nicholas Robinson
>Do you think technical progress has made us happier? nah bro, people were way happier in the good old days when they died before 30 of basically every single disease that is curable today. also, imagine fucking an unshaven unbathed smelly oozing cunt that would make even a noseless man's eyes water just before basic plumbing became mainstream
>Dont you sometimes think that maybe ancient people were maybe happier than us? see my unbathed cunt argument above
>Do you wish sometimes that you lived in another time and why. actually yes, about 4000 years into the future, it's either warp drives or the matrix and i'm fine with both or, if i could go back in time with the knowledge i have now then i probably would... just to use it in order to enslave mankind and be worshiped like a god throughout history
Cooper Kelly
Nice argument. No wonder why they hate us here.
Landon Collins
We fucked up when we stopped hunting and turned to women's work: agriculture. Everything that sucks followed from that one decision.
Nathaniel Moore
Happiness from these machines and inventions making my life easier. I can live without them, but it definitely helps with certain things as they can free up more time for me to do other things.
Juan Garcia
>Do you think technical progress has made us happier?
Nope. Made us more miserable because we are constantly chasing over what we could have instead of enjoying what we have now.
>Dont you sometimes think that maybe ancient people were maybe happier than us?
Of course they were. Their life was hell by our standards. But only 100 years from now, our lives will be hell by the future's standard, regardless of if the future progresses to technological utopia or a dystopia.
>Do you wish sometimes that you lived in another time and why. This timeline is the best timeline because i exist in this timeline :)
Easton Ortiz
>Do you think technical progress has made us happier? In some ways. I prefer washing machines to doing laundry by hand, and i couldn't imagine the pain in the ass of doing the dishes at work without a degreaser of some kind.
>Dont you sometimes think that maybe ancient people were maybe happier than us? In general? maybe. But their inability to solve simple problems probably caused far greater spikes. You don't have to worry about your loved ones dying from a mild fever or a small wound, etc etc.
>I know that technical progress is ont thing and how you use it is another. Oh yeah we've definitely taken luxury and easement too far. The internet was a mistake, as was television.
>Do you wish sometimes that you lived in another time and why. I wish i could live in the early 1900's. The world was still wide and vibrant then and you could be a pilot without being tied to a billion regulations. I'd take the increased labor and risk of disease for the ability to be one of the first flyboys.
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Daniel Kelly
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Josiah Cook
"technological progress" is built into the coding. you can choose to accept it or not. we're all experiencing the same thing. your fake history of being a monkey doesn't exist. you're overthinking it.
Cooper Davis
Yes, they bring comfort, but all that you consider good or bad is happening within. That's a differed thing.
Benjamin Brown
I think finding solutions to problems will inherently create new problems. Those new problems, however, are better than the problems that came before. The new problems are less consequential. People are wealthier, healthier, safer, and more content than they've ever been. To the extent people are less happy, that's a condition found around the periphery of our modern circumstances.
Happiness is something so incredibly subjective that I'm not sure it belongs as a topic in debate.
Gabriel Howard
I think the emergence of new problems and their nature is relevant to the solutions employed to negate the previous problem. Ex: pavement roads to make travelling easier and more streamlined, causing a need to upkeep the conditions of these roads and to counter the effects they have on the vehicles and their impact on the environment.
>Happiness is something so incredibly subjective that I'm not sure it belongs as a topic in debate I disagree, but only because that happiness deserves it's own debate in and of itself.
Camden Wood
>happier no >happier than us? maybe more content in a certain way the lived more fulfilling lives spiritually and as people but with more hardships and perhaps as a way of overcoming those hardships the learned how to deal with them in a more robust way. >do I wish I lived in another time or place? I do sometimes wish I lived in a time where the negative effects of technology were more mitigated than now maybe enough technology to have some of the mundane tasks taken care of but then again I could always do those things by hand. I guess I just feel like life nowadays is progressing without ever stopping to ask what its progressing to and why or if this progression is even going to achieve what we think it will.
Dylan Morgan
You're not a fucking Berber Berbers were always Mediterranean Caucasian people who mixed with the Germanic Vandals thus creating a Germano-Med mix. Sandniggers came much later and converted the Berber people to Islam. And these Berbers later conquered Spain and became the Moors. You're just a filthy subhuman mongrel shitskin from centuries of sandniggers and nigger immigration into North Africa.
Lucas Young
Our natural state for most of our time as modern humans was being hunter gatherers. We are denying our nature and think we aren't animals
Austin Reed
>Do you think technical progress has made us happier? Of course not. Read the Unabomber's manifesto. It's universally made life worse.
Hunter Nguyen
have we changed our environment faster than we can adapt to it?
Brayden Fisher
I aint a machine bro I swear
Colton Martinez
Your english is shit. Tech made us comfier. You don't have to have a time machine you dumbass, go live with no tech. It's easier than living with tech. Tech. Tech. Tech.
Thomas Martin
For those, a good thing. For things like smartphones, I think that's a different story.
Kayden Wright
>Do you think technical progress has made us happier? Well, first, I would say that depends on how you measure happiness. Positive and negative emotion are not mutually exclusive. What I can say with absolute certainty is that technological progress has made people feel less negative emotion. Whether that means they feel more positive emotion or not, I can't say. It's possible to live your life in a wide variety of ways in the modern era and some will be destructive and some will be fulfilling, but 1000 years ago, odds are you would've never even been given the choice, as death, disease and famine lurked around every corner.
The second thing I would say is: what makes you think happiness is a valuable metric to begin with? The happiest people in the world are people suffering from mania: they are unbelievably happy all the time, to the point of self-destruction. Would you rather be them than your average person? I don't understand that.
Owen Bell
No I don't, it's seems to have made people hate life more completely.
Jose Davis
I heard hunter gatherers were far from being poor miserable folk. I read they probably had it better than most farmers ever. Interesting theory
Nolan Sanchez
We advanced to fast. We have the knowledge but not the wisdom of understanding it.
Can go both ways. The sudden advances that scar the land mite offer a solution to those same problems and we heal the land. But they can also destroy us easily.
What happens to nuclear plants if some disaster fucks up the area?
Dominic Robinson
Maybe happiness is just not that important. As long as you aren’t miserable, why do you have to be constantly happy? Technology; having a warm place to shit, is better than the misery of wiping your ass with poison ivy while fending off dire wolves.