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POV looking up from the ground at an armored knight with the caption “E-mails? Work in the morning?
School? Filing taxes?
What are you talking about?
You must have hit your head pretty hard”
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[–] 70 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you're clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you're lucky...

Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard's crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Yup. If we're going to romanticise non-modern life, we should probably look to the hunter gatherer San people of South Africa. They are considered one of the most peaceful cultures and hardly had any previous records of conflict (except in the 1970s and '80s but that's a long story).

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