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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
All forms of "progress" * drag humanity away from the ideal past. Some kind of solar storm frying all microchips and eliminating the electronics would do us all a world of good.
* I'm not talking about progress as in acceptance, obviously.
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I think it goes back further than the microchips though. You could argue oil, you could argue industrial revolution/the spark of globalisation.
But for the beginning of the end you could honestly argue the agricultural revolution which takes us back millenia. I don't think humans exist well as we do. I think in all likelihood - assuming abundant resources - we probably individually thrived in our tribes. It's quite clear that it's something we instinctually crave and it's led to people self-organising into these weird approximations of that existence.