Timeline for Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
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| Feb 19 at 14:04 | comment | added | AnoE | Absolutely, @ScottRowe. IMO, depression comes just as well from circumstances regressing (even if only slightly). I believe things perceived becoming worse is objectively much worse in itself than things being "absolutely" worse but improving slightly. | |
| Feb 19 at 12:20 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I often say that 99% of people where I live are better off than a king was long ago. Just safe water alone is a miracle, only 150 years old. No one had any sort of 'computer', cellphone etc when I was growing up, now these miracles are practically free. Perhaps 8 out of 9 billion people are depressed because they wouldn't have even been alive 200 years ago. | |
| Feb 19 at 8:35 | comment | added | AnoE | Very possible, @ScottRowe. My answer focuses on describing a potential (to me, very likely) mechanism on how this could occur (and on the family ties, not on psychology); I have no statistical data etc. to say anything about whether that is indeed the case. That said, I don't even want to know how depressed a low-income person (so, probably the majority of people) in the early 1900's or earlier felt - must have been a very tough experience indeed, even compared to everything going on today, indeed. | |
| Feb 19 at 0:13 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I think people have been lonely and depressed in all kinds of situations for as long as there have been people. It has been asked whether the dramatic rise in autism corresponds with increasing awareness that it exists. Perhaps recent rises in measured depression rates go with looking for it? | |
| Feb 6 at 15:03 | comment | added | AnoE | Thanks, have spent a N.B. on that, @Stef. | |
| Feb 6 at 15:03 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 6 at 12:34 | comment | added | Stef | "Migration between tribes certainly happened too, [...] but I would assume this was a relatively minor role; sticking with the tribe was probably always much much easier for all involved." << Actually I think that marriage was used regularly as a tool to prevent wars between tribes. If a few tribe members of tribe A move to tribe B to form families, and a few members of tribe B move to tribe A to form families, tribes A and B become much much less likely to fight eachother to death. So this happened regularly. At least that's what Jared Diamond argues in one of his books. | |
| Feb 6 at 10:30 | history | answered | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |