Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“They used to sell gladiator sweat as a beauty treatment, they would sell it in souvenir pots.”
“It’s the worst of me … I never do pay my bills. Have been so from a child!”)
TLDR; no we’ve pretty much always been unhinged.
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
But OP asked about “decades ago”. What if humanity was actually making progress in the 20th century, becoming better, and now we’re backsliding to where we were during gladiator times?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
More of a cycle, I would argue. Part of the rise and fall of empires or whatever.