Are people actually more morally enlightened now than they were in the past?

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On the contrary we are, in general, much more morally and spiritually depraved than our ancestors.

I have to agree with this, we need to adopt the morality of our Paleolithic ancestors; a time before oppressive hierarchies.

[PSOL]

On the contrary we are, in general, much more morally and spiritually depraved than our ancestors.

I have to agree with this, we need to adopt the morality of our Paleolithic ancestors; a time before oppressive hierarchies.

Yeah, we need to return to a society dominated not by titans of industry who earned their riches by offering goods and services that immeasurably improved the lives of their fellow man, but rather by whoever had the biggest rock.

Note that I said we should adopt several of their values, not return to their material reality.

@Geoffrey I don’t get it?

[PSOL]

On the contrary we are, in general, much more morally and spiritually depraved than our ancestors.

I have to agree with this, we need to adopt the morality of our Paleolithic ancestors; a time before oppressive hierarchies.

Yeah, we need to return to a society dominated not by titans of industry who earned their riches by offering goods and services that immeasurably improved the lives of their fellow man, but rather by whoever had the biggest rock.

Note that I said we should adopt several of their values, not return to their material reality.

In either case, it's a complete meme that paleolithic cultures didn't have hierarchies. Hierarchy predates human evolution; it was not a product of agriculture, capitalism, or any of the other boogeymen that anarcho-primitivists condemn.

What’s certain is that they weren’t as rigid or as difficult to avoid as the hierarchies established in the start of sedentary societies dependent on agriculture.

@G, no I did but I don’t get it. What does a portrait painter have to do with this?