Comparing 2018 and 1918...Are we happier?

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TheAmazingGrace said:
Know what else we have in this day and age? The resources to deal with those things.
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I just wanted to say that this statement really struck me and here’s why–
It is very true…
And yet there are still barriers to entry to treatment. Some folks don’t reach out for that help, maybe they feel shame or they’re afraid of being drug tested and found to have chemicals in their system, or they’re still trying to snap themselves out of it.
Or maybe the meds are expensive and there’s a six month waiting list for appointments at the psychiatric office.

I don’t want to derail the thread, though.

Darn, you got me thinking!
🙂
 
But the thread wasn’t about our material comforts.
It’s about have these comforts made us happier.

It’s hard to put a metric on that…
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
I think this part is huge.
People are lonely :confused:
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Sometimes…sometimes that’s our own fault. The reliance on social media in this day and age is indeed self-created. I’ve spent time in major metro areas where everyone is walking around with earphones in - no one talks to each other any more, it seems.

We’ve imposed that on ourselves. We can choose not to be that way, and yet we are.
 
Several points on my list have very little to do with material happiness.
Like enforced Church membership.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
But the thread wasn’t about our material comforts.
It’s about have these comforts made us happier.

It’s hard to put a metric on that…
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This is strictly my opinion: I think what makes us “unhappy” is that we have expected all this modernity to make us happy - and it doesn’t.

We also seem to have a bad habit of taking things for granted, and that, I think, has less to do with socioeconomic status and more to do with modern life in general.
 
I think you’re from Scandinavia (or I might be confusing you with someone else). I’m in the US and that’s not a thing here, so it’s outside my frame of reference.

But I can’t imagine being forced to go to Church.
I like to go.
Buy I don’t like being forced to do anything.
 
My great grandpa died when he got kicked in the head shoeing a horse and they had to wait until morning and snow stopped to get him to Fargo now our helicopter team could be dispatched and had him to Fargo in 30 minutes. Or the jet team Minneapolis or Rochester in 90.
 
Yes, I’m Scandinavian, and so my comparison to 1918 does include religious oppression and other non-material differences between now and then.

Imagine not only being forced to church, but forced and cathechized in a faith you don’t share, and no easy way to get out.

It was a very different time and place.
 
I realize 36 for women and 42 for men are averages.

My grandmother was born in 1882 and my dad was born in 1923. So she was 41 when she had him. And he had an older brother and a younger brother. She lived to be 90!

My grandfather, her husband, born in 1878 died at the ripe old age of 78.

I guess I come from hearty stock!
 
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Oh, many lived longer than that. My ancestors did for the most part.

I have a great-grandmother who had 21 kids - that lived (I have a photo of her with all of them - this is no exaggeration, it’s true) - and she died in her 80s.
 
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alice24 said:
But for those constantly claiming there was no porn like today back then, it is a very well researched publication of a very good historian. I used his work a lot.
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Not just Germany, and not just hundred years ago.

Over in India, there are temples standing that are many hundreds of years old and have pornographic statues. Smut is nothing particularly new
 
Augustinian said:
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alice24:
But for those constantly claiming there was no porn like today back then, it is a very well researched publication of a very good historian. I used his work a lot.
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Not just Germany, and not just hundred years ago.

Over in India, there are temples standing that are many hundreds of years old and have pornographic statues. Smut is nothing particularly new
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What you might not be hearing is that no one is disputing what you are saying.
What is true is that pornography is pandemic now, but was not pandemic in 1918.
While what you say is true, the fact is pornography is exponentially more available and consumed.

Can you see that difference in regard to the OP question?
 
1918 here, the indigenous were treated as part of the fauna , rather then human.
 
goout said:
What is true is that pornography is pandemic now, but was not pandemic in 1918.
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Well, the Russians seemed to like it:

www.theguardian.com

Inside the Soviet Union's secret pornography collection

Off limits to the general public, the collection was created after the Bolsheviks came to power to house materials confiscated from aristocratic libraries
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Excerpt from a book on Google:

books.google.com

Literature and Political Change: Budapest, 1908-1918

A study of the Nyugat movement in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the organizers of which was the father of author Mario D. Fenyo. The objective purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to formulate a methodology, a theory of the political function of literature...
books.google.com

Germany:

https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=hst_articles

Looks like it was a problem even this far back - another excerpt from a book on Google, entitled A HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE:

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Looks like women brought it back from France, likely as a novelty - from Women On the Frontlines of WWI Came to Operate Telephones | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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Apparently the first “stag” film - which revolved around a car - was actually made in 1915. It was called “A Free Ride” (I am not making this up). I’ll let you Google that one.

warhistoryonline.com had a few things to say as well.

The war changed things. Including the proliferation of pornography. It was around, it was prolific within the constraints of its era.
 
To answer this question honestly, I would have to be over a 100 years old. 🤨
 
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