I was gonna make a comment about the theories on how child raising and alcohol and other factors are often proposed to make a case that half of everyone in history would be considered deeply traumatized and developmentally impaired… But honestly that’s too dismissive of the vast majority of human history for a discussion of what a “normal” human is.
Actually that’s a good point. I’ve often thought that the reason the Baby Boomer generation has such a notorious reputation is due to their fathers coming back with severe PTSD. Previous gen before that had the Great Depression. We’re still dealing with early 20th century trauma to this day.
If that is all you’ve taken out of seeing human history and haven’t seen a trend directly related to the use and intake of heavy metals and the sort, and in the modern age the difference between murder rates in the US, by population and police, compared to the rest of the western world, you haven’t seen nearly enough of human history to understand anything.
Historically, the prevalence of just lead on its own boosted the aggression and sociopathic behavior of the population to ludicrous extents and these days, when that should be very little of a factor, the US still far outranks anyone else on the same developmental level by obscene levels.
It’s a combination of the US being sucky about environmental pollution and having a serious societal problem with police being murderous asshats and people being OK with it.
That’s a (* mumbles) sumthing sumthing bias! You only read and see it in history and media because it’s exceptional. While the mundane just passess as throughout time without even a footnote.
Is it though? I’ve seen enough of human history to outright dispute that claim.
I was gonna make a comment about the theories on how child raising and alcohol and other factors are often proposed to make a case that half of everyone in history would be considered deeply traumatized and developmentally impaired… But honestly that’s too dismissive of the vast majority of human history for a discussion of what a “normal” human is.
Actually that’s a good point. I’ve often thought that the reason the Baby Boomer generation has such a notorious reputation is due to their fathers coming back with severe PTSD. Previous gen before that had the Great Depression. We’re still dealing with early 20th century trauma to this day.
Don’t forget lead and other heavy metal and environmental pollution having clear and proven effects on peoples aggression.
No wonder that in the days of drinking out of lead cups and using lead for plumbing, murder and general brutality was far more common.
Romans are a really good example of all this. They had so much lead in their system you couldn’t take an X-ray of them if you wanted.
If that is all you’ve taken out of seeing human history and haven’t seen a trend directly related to the use and intake of heavy metals and the sort, and in the modern age the difference between murder rates in the US, by population and police, compared to the rest of the western world, you haven’t seen nearly enough of human history to understand anything.
Historically, the prevalence of just lead on its own boosted the aggression and sociopathic behavior of the population to ludicrous extents and these days, when that should be very little of a factor, the US still far outranks anyone else on the same developmental level by obscene levels.
It’s a combination of the US being sucky about environmental pollution and having a serious societal problem with police being murderous asshats and people being OK with it.
That’s a (* mumbles) sumthing sumthing bias! You only read and see it in history and media because it’s exceptional. While the mundane just passess as throughout time without even a footnote.