While watching a documentary someone noted how they would have hated living in the middle ages. The idea of not being able to drive to the beauty salon once a week to get new painted nails was apparently too painful to bear thinking about. Imagine the horror at not having a car, computer, television and films, how on earth could someone survive.
Well quite easily I tried to explain. Everything is relative. If we had been born then, we would not have the good fortune of five or six hundred extra years of civilisation. We would not miss the little luxuries like our precious iphones, which we can’t seem to live without today, just in the same way I don’t miss some yet to be invented technology today. We can only use the cards we are dealt and we generally try to find some level of happiness with our lot. TV would not be missed, instead we would go with everyone else to watch a good old public hanging, and the next day we would chat about it at the public water fountain, and we would enjoy it, after all 10 million people claim to enjoy watching the auditions for Britains Got Talent and the X Factor, public mutilation for the 21st century. In the end the vast majority of us are not that innovative or special, we don’t visualise a better way, we are just following the collective herd.
So would I have liked to live in the middle ages. I’m sure i would have fucking loved it.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to check what everyone is up to on facebook.
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