• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    16 hours ago

    That we have gotten dumber.

    Or smarter.

    Or more moral.

    Or less moral.

    Anyone who says that is trying to sell you some ideology.

    If you know your history, you know humanity has fundamentally always been humanity since we started writing shit down. Possibly earlier, but then we can’t be sure because no-writing-itis.

    Some of the oldest texts we have are old men cranking about the kids these days.

    There’s stories of people being awful and exploiting each other. There’s stories of people taking care of each other and of their surroundings during dark times. There’s stories of people being weird little guys. We have just sorta always been ourselves.