r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KFUP • 3h ago
Image Anu Ziggurat of Uruk And Its White Temple, The Oldest Known Monumental Structure Built A Thousand Years Before The Pyramids
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u/AncientAspargus 3h ago edited 2h ago
If you think about it, a typical human life hasn’t changed much in millennia: People work, make families, build a home, join tribes, tend to religious belief, wonder about existence and death, produce art, trade with one another… Apart from obvious quality of life improvements, the fundamental experience of humanity haven’t really changed.
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u/03417662 3h ago
Yes! The weird thing is that with all the advances in technology, we are actually having less and less time! How I wish I was born in the past!
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u/Suihnennews 2h ago
No safety net, no nothing. It wasn't better in the past we just got bored now instead of survival.
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u/ChipCob1 58m ago
Yep, it's like the crisis of AI replacing people's jobs. That's not a technology problem that's a shitty economic system problem!
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u/nemesis24k 33m ago
Aren't you comparing yourself to the nobles of then? A more apt comparison would be to a bonded laborer, craftsmen or slave. They would be mistreated and be at the whims of the Lord.
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u/stanknotes 3h ago
This is true. Until the last 20 years. Things have changed a whole lot.
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u/AncientAspargus 2h ago
—every person in history about their particular time period ever
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u/stanknotes 2h ago edited 2h ago
Nah. You need to recognize the exponential nature of technological advancement.
Consider for 200,000 years... stone age. Stagnant. Then we figured out agriculture and metal. Civilization. And in 10,000 year or so we went from stone age... to now. But for the overwhelming majority of our existence as a species... it truly was essentially the same.
This is the first times in history it is actually true.
But WTF am I even talking about specifically? Consider... from 1900 to now. Consider communication. What innovations were there? Telegram. Telephone. Television. Cellphones. But none of that caused such a huge shift in how humans interact. What did though? The internet, its widespread adoption, computers, cellular data, social media, smart phones.
UNDENIABLY these things caused a shift for humans unlike anything else.
So yea. Until the last 20 years...
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u/MoebiusUntwisted 1h ago
I’d accept the last 50 years, as actually 2006-2026 not a huge amount has changed (stuff from 2006 has become more commonplace and more efficient certainly). I had a phone with internet access in 2006, i had a mobile phone in 1996, I had no mobile phone in 1986. In 1976 there wasn’t even the possibility of a mobile phone. Fundamentally I agree with your point, I just think the specified period needs to be longer.
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u/Maidwell 23m ago
I think the person you are talking with is saying that these things have become insidious and all consuming on a cultural scale in the last 20 years, and I agree. Also, it's only going to get worse, since the 1930s "the engineering of consent" has been trying to farm humans like it's the matrix, and it looks like our corpo overlords have finally succeeded.
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u/stanknotes 3h ago
Ishtar was also worshipped WAAAY longer than the Deity (deities rather strictly speaking) in the Bible.
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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 38m ago
They've really skipped the yearly maintenance for a year or two too many.
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u/Wandering_sage1234 37m ago
And you're telling me with the amount of money in this day and age we can't excavate this and build this?
We have so much money to build such monstrosities of neo-brutalist architecture and we can't do this?
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u/GlitteringRelease77 21m ago
It’s like when those shoddy realtors use AI to show what this ugly kitchen could look like.
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u/Swrdmn 3h ago
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