01-12-2016, 11:55 PM
(01-12-2016, 07:29 PM)gstanford Wrote: Like I said the dark ages and medieval period happened. Ignorance flourished while the church prospered.
It took us until the 1850's or thereabouts to begin to recover from that.
Capitalism wants to usher in its own dark ages, where we are all wage slaves to our rich overlords and our only purpose in life is working to enrich them.
Ignorance is flourishing right now. Pre- modern medicine people lived around 40 years.
http://ourworldindata.org/data/populatio...xpectancy/
In Rome around the time of Christ people were living around 35 years.
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-avera...-his-death
There was no magical free health care the church put the smack down on - only dying.