Tag: prehistory
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The past is not black and white – it is now
They show you the past in black and white. Blurry. Shaky. Distant. The footage is grainy, the voices muffled, and the movements too fast or too slow. The effect is immediate: this is something far away. Not part of your life. Just a story. But that is false. The past did not look like this.…
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Was it better in prehistory? Extermination camps, gulags, systematic oppression, global wars
While there is no doubt life is better now than in prehistory (generally), modern-day history offers a lot of cruel modern-day novelties non-existential in prehistory. One journalist has rebutted that the Middle Ages may not have been so bad by saying: “What about Gulags?” Homo sapiens are species enormously prone to wars. And while a…