Was society better before the Industrial revolution? - /pol/ (#509296545) [Archived: 726 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: Mu8PgbUnBelgium
7/2/2025, 12:31:07 PM No.509296545
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If you could make the entire world go back to pre-1830 levels of technology, would you do it?
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Anonymous ID: lw3HbwIzUnited States
7/2/2025, 12:34:25 PM No.509296703
The world already went through that period and advanced beyond it. I see no point in repeating that.
Anonymous ID: zXImhM1KUnited States
7/2/2025, 12:34:56 PM No.509296724
I'd be dead several times over from various health issues. I'm only alive 'cause scientists figured out how to manufacture insulin.
Anonymous ID: nNZYBmnrAustralia
7/2/2025, 12:38:51 PM No.509296888
>>509296545 (OP)
There is nothing stopping you from making your own pots and beating metal by hand and picking fruit for a living. Why make everyone else do it, just go be a Amish or some shit..
Anonymous ID: Gck11PvfUnited States
7/2/2025, 12:38:57 PM No.509296895
>>509296545 (OP)
back before discovery of electricity
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Anonymous ID: vIynvU9NFinland
7/2/2025, 12:39:45 PM No.509296935
>>509296545 (OP)
>would you do it?
Absolutely not.
Anonymous ID: u/i7QdQIAustria
7/2/2025, 12:43:35 PM No.509297115
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Yes, totally - only leftists are in favor of modernism and progress. The destruction of corporatism is basic problem of Europe.
Anonymous ID: 6Rygmyn6France
7/2/2025, 12:45:07 PM No.509297184
>>509296545 (OP)
Fuck no
Anonymous ID: XhikkR/WGermany
7/2/2025, 12:55:59 PM No.509297678
Only women and beta cucks would answer no
Anonymous ID: HAMZmAntGermany
7/2/2025, 1:07:50 PM No.509298185
>>509296895
no but you misunderstand me, i want to erase all technological knowledge and have a new beginning, for everyone to work for their needs, not be dependent upon their ability to obtain food etc, but rather have those things given to them.
Anonymous ID: Oy94pqtWUnited States
7/2/2025, 1:08:28 PM No.509298216
what timeline even is this anymore
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Anonymous ID: KFBESt+7United States
7/2/2025, 1:09:04 PM No.509298241
>>509296545 (OP)
If one is disabled no, if not then yes.
Anonymous ID: Oy94pqtWUnited States
7/2/2025, 1:09:29 PM No.509298261
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what timeline even is this anymore?
Anonymous ID: XhikkR/WGermany
7/2/2025, 1:19:39 PM No.509298707
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>>509298216
the piss timeline
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Anonymous ID: wICGoPDzUnited States
7/2/2025, 1:23:58 PM No.509298909
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>The Under-Man is unconvertible. He will not bow to the new truth, because he knows that the new truth is not for him. Why should he work for a higher civilization, when even the present civilization is beyond his powers ? What the Under-Man wants is, not progress, but regress regress to more primitive conditions in which he would be at home. In fact, the more he grasps the significance of the new eugenic truth, the uglier grows his mood. So long as all men believed all men potentially equal, the Under-Man could delude himself into thinking that changed circumstances might raise him to the top. Now that nature herself proclaims him irremediably inferior, his hatred of superiority knows no bounds.

>This hatred he has always instinctively felt. Envy and resentment of superiority have ever been the badges of base minds. Yet never have these badges been so fiercely flaunted, so defiantly worn, as today. This explains the seeming paradox that, just when the character of superiority becomes supremely manifest, the cry for levelling "equality" rises supremely shrill. The Under- Man revolts against progress! Nature herself having decreed him uncivilizable, the Under-Man declares war on civilization.

>These are not pretty facts. But we had better face them, lest they face us, and catch us unawares. Let us, then, understand once and for all that we have among us a rebel army the vast host of the unadaptable, the incapable, the envious, the discontented, filled with instinctive hatred of civilization and progress, and ready on the instant to rise in revolt.

---Stoddard, Lothrop: Revolt Against Civilization, the Menace of the Under-Man. 1922 Chapman and Hall
Anonymous ID: qtxhQS1bUnited States
7/2/2025, 1:25:32 PM No.509298983
Why stop there? Humans were better off before society. Anarcho-primitivism is better than being Amish.
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Anonymous ID: qpy1FJhLUnited States
7/2/2025, 1:33:24 PM No.509299366
>>509298707
PISS! PISS! PISS! PISS! PISS! PISS!

The oil will run out and hot fusion is still untenable.
Anonymous ID: 8U0MW6Z8Chile
7/2/2025, 1:34:59 PM No.509299446
>>509298983
No go back to being amish

We had enough of your primitive ways