Were people really "built different" in the past, or is it just a meme?

>>17761307 (OP)

Litterally the 2nd oldest story in Europe has the main character weeping when he's reminded of the war he fought in and his dead friends.

>>17761317
Isn't that the oldest story?

>>17761322
No, because he's being reminded of the oldest in the 2nd oldest which makes him cry.

>>17761325
What was the oldest?

>>17761334
Iliad.

>>17761336
I thought you were referencing the Iliad

>>17761341
No, Odyssey is when Odysseus is reminded of his dead friends when Demodocus the bard sings of the Trojan War.

>>17761334
OP being a faggot

>>17761307 (OP)
>>17761348

Should whites go back to Europe?

>>17761307 (OP)
People used to die a lot and leave lives with far less comforts so going out and dying some trenches didn't seem as weird to those people. Look at the RU/UK war where the russian front is mainly manned by people from poor, underdeveloped provinces

>>17761307 (OP)
I doubt it. When times are tough you will have callouses on your hands, when they're good you'll be soft. It's the way things are, nothing wrong with it.

>>17761307 (OP)
I know this is about mental health but when I watch older movies (50s 60s) im astounded by how people (particularly men) used to look

They just lied and embellished a whole lot

Nobody was there to tell them it's bullshit

>>17762326
20-30 years olds that look they should be in their 40s-60s?

>>17762356
not even 20 year olds even people like leonardo dicaprio looks weirdly feminine
but im one to talk
t. feminine twink

>>17761307 (OP)

I'd say both yes and no, it's complicated.

On one hand, in the past you would have been desensitized to death at a much earlier age simply because life was much harder. Your mother dying in childbirth, your father dying in a workplace accident, your brother or sister dying of illness would've been far more common. Even if it didn't happen to you specifically, it would have happened to others you knew.

On the other hand, I don't think human psychology has actually changed that much over the millennia, we're simply subjected to different stimuli now. Also such experiences wouldn't necessarily have produced tougher people. It would just as easily have produced broken people. The town drunk probably didn't become a drunk just because he enjoyed alcohol a little too much, but because he lost little sister to smallpox as a boy and turned to self-medication to cope with the trauma. The bandit who robs and kills people didn't end up that way because he's just a psycho who enjoys murder, but because his wife died in childbirth and his grief is so extreme that he simply lashes out at everyone in a never-ending fit of rage.

Life back then was less soft and much more brutal. It made boys into men. That "process" doesn't really exist today. Many adults are children with jobs. Even people's faces back then seemed more masculine bc they went outside and worked manual labor jobs.

>>17761307 (OP)
they had the same genes, but different memes, which made them built different.

People were religion cucks and much more willing to die for a billionaire oligarchs because they thought they got to respawn in paradise while they slowly bled out in the trenches. Do you think the nazis could ever exist in a majority atheist country?
>let's all die premature for the great leader so we can rot in the ground faster!!!
Religion started out as a means for the ruler class to control the peasantry.