2014-12-07 13:30 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>: We are better for the survival, but we might be astonished for the quality > of life, even of the poors. It is very hard to judge. We have much more > depression and suicides, we have much more elderly people abandoned by > their family. We have much more fake conviviality and superficial > happiness. We have new fears and new subject of despair (like atomic bombs, > pollution, prohibition, ...). I just mean that I am not completely > persuaded that the technological progresses made us more happy. The 20th > century has also been a peak of inhumanity, notably through genocide, very > cruel wars, including the cold one, rise of unemployment, etc. So I am not > sure, I dunno, may be we can't really answer this. > > Bruno > > Indeed. Some people would be depressed if they manage to understand that History is not a supermarket where one buy lego pieces of distortion and propaganda to construct his own sense of superiority. Neither an govermental agency in charge of producing comfortable feelings about oneself, and about the regime where one lives. But they would beeven more upset when they discover that modernity is something more than his iPhone, paid holydays, democracy and breast augmentation.
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