Cult of Passion at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:58:35 UTC No. 16300796

>>16300793
>What prevents modern man from being as productive and discovering as many breakthroughs?
https://youtu.be/gqYEVPc_cpM

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:35:54 UTC No. 16300858

>>16300796
But I feel too lazy, anon!

Cult of Passion at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:40:20 UTC No. 16300932

>>16300858
>I feel
>fap fap fap
https://youtu.be/7Wogm9R4GYM

Dont become a hero, just envy one...

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:01:01 UTC No. 16300971

>>16300932
What are the odds any anon here would reach the heights of a Newton?

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:35:54 UTC No. 16301105

>>16300932
Fapping all day just feels better than toiling away as a scientist

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:54:15 UTC No. 16301137

>>16300793
In Greek culture, the slaves knew their place, and stayed there.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:20:49 UTC No. 16301234

>>16301137
A shame they outlawed slavery

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:30:55 UTC No. 16301238

>>16300793
They were better than us bro, humans peaked already.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:44:10 UTC No. 16301254

>>16301238
What caused the degeneration of the pure ubermensch?

Cult of Passion at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:17:40 UTC No. 16301329

>>16300971
Remediation? Jeez that would harm my reputation AND ego.

I hope 0%.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:57:24 UTC No. 16301601

>>16300793
>and discovered
The ancient greeks didn't discover, they hypothesized. It's different.
They hypothesized things we later on tested for and proved to be right, but they also proposed many wrong hypotheses, more so than right ones, actually, because for each correct hypothesis, there were many other competing ideas floating about in the philosophical circles and school that turned out to be wrong, completely wrong.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:55:09 UTC No. 16301692

>>16300971
What are the odds you actually think Newton was an ancient Greek?

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:00:43 UTC No. 16301877

>>16301601
They made some really good progress at math and geometry without having instruments and the scientific method. That was impressive
>>16301692
None, but he was very productive. Probably the most productive mind of all time.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:29:37 UTC No. 16301910

>>16300793
Well life was pretty fucking boring back then for the most part, that's one reason. It's easier to do shit when there's no easy, convenient entertainment at your fingertips.

Anonymous at Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:59:32 UTC No. 16302320

>>16301910
I wish I was born in that era. I waste most of the day fapping rather than experimenting

Anonymous at Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:08:32 UTC No. 16303474

>>16301910
>Well life was pretty fucking boring back then
Boring is a mental state created entirely by the mind. Many things that would bore you would not bore an ancient person. You'd likely enjoy very simple things like some dice games or watching some theater play and think it was amazingly fun. The brain just self-adjust its expectations for fun and luxury.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:29:50 UTC No. 16304025

>>16303474
can we go back to simple enjoyments while living in modern society full of "exciting" things?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:35:17 UTC No. 16304298

>>16300793
>Be early modern human
>Brains capable of more than any other animal
>You learned how to make tools that make more complex objects
>Brain craves more
>There is no more, more needs to be created
>There is no distractions because they haven't been created yet
>????
>Be Greek/roman in 2000bce


Or what, did you think phones and cars and video games and VR and computers and every single board and card game and every little and big distraction we have in the modern age has always existed throughout history? Did you think your grandma was born with the ability to knit and sew and crochet and your grandpa just really liked working on cars and they just chose not to get sucked into Facebook and tiktok?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:13:10 UTC No. 16304432

>>16303474
>Many things that would bore you would not bore an ancient person.
Yeah, because the ancient person didn't have instant access to cheap entertainment at all times like we do. What's your point?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:46:48 UTC No. 16304455

>>16300793
How exactly did you measure productivity to draw the conclusion that they were more productive?
What was the GDP of ancient greece?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:48:37 UTC No. 16304457

>>16304432
>because the ancient person didn't have instant access to cheap entertainment at all times like we do
They could literally just wander into the local whorehouse and watch all the whore drama play out much easier than today's high security petty legal system paradigm.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:16:16 UTC No. 16304477

They had the privilege of being the first to have enough free time and a well enough functionining society to make discoveries and inventions without some grug bonking them over the head for not paying immediate attention to basic survival things.

Also there was a lot of things to be discovered then. If you want to make a world revolutionining discovery nowadays you have to work much harder.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:46:02 UTC No. 16304488

>>16301601
This.
>>16301877
Sure, the fact that they did all this stuff by hand may be impressive, but it does nothing to diminish the accomplishments we've made today. We've been able to invent the microchip, and treat/cure diseases in ways the Greeks would be astonished by.

Your perspective is fuckin' whack.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:08:45 UTC No. 16304502

>>16300793
I'm pretty sure the modern man discovered more in the one century than Greeks did in a millennium.