• PugJesus@piefed.social
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    What would be the better place to live in human history?

    I mean, we can truthfully say it’s damnation by faint praise to say as much, but I struggle to think of a better time.

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      Oh he’s saying the Western world today is better than living anywhere else in human history. Yeah that’s not unreasonable but also a bit of a pointless comparison. I’d rather be well off in several non Western countries than be poor in a Western country, especially America.

      My initial interpretation was that the Western world has always been the best place to live in human history which is a hard sell to say the least.

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        My initial interpretation was that the Western world has always been the best place to live in human history which is a hard sell to say the least.

        Ah, yeah, that would be extremely questionable at best.

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      The Punt Empire. An empire so antithetical to Western values that the British Library sponsored a genocidial campaign in Africa to erase evidence of its existence.

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        The Punt Empire. An empire so antithetical to Western values that the British Library sponsored a genocidial campaign in Africa to erase evidence of its existence.

        What?