Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Lex Fridman"
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What ignorance! 🙄🙄🙄 (On the part of Tim Urban or whoever it is. 😏)
He's just told us that people of the past (he really means pre-Enlightenment or pre-20th century) "didn't know anything". 😏
They, apparently, "didn't know" they were going to die. 🙄
What rubbish. They knew about death much more intimately than the sanitised people of today.
They "didn't take hot showers".Even if they were George Waahington! 🙄
Has Tim Urban ever heard of heating water for a tin bath?? The kind people have in front of a fire, in Western movies??
THAT'S how it was generally done, you see. I don't think that "cold showers" were much of a thing for anyone, until British public schools started using them as an anti-masturbation measure. 😏
And ALL this temporal chauvinism!! Towards EVERYONE in this land of the past, which "didn't have hot showers". 😏
Is Tim unaware of cultures which were a lot more cleanly (and technology and kuxury-oriented) than quite a few of the medieval and indeed Western societies that came after?? 😏 (Now THAT was an example of reverse progress, which also happens in history. 😏)
Like the Romans: with their ubiquitous public baths (often taking advantage of hot springs) and their under-floor heating, in cold countries like Britannia? 🙂
Has he never heard, either, of the saunas and sweat lodges, of cultures like the Finns and the Native Americans??
Was this guy REALLY BORN yesterday?? 😏
He certainly wouldn't make a very good historical novelist.
And as for modern people "taking hot showers for granted" - no they can't!! These days!! What if they can't pay the electric bill? The gas bill?? Or the extortionate amount for a tank full of fuel oil? (Incidentally: I'm still waiting for the delivery of mine, & my shower's gone cold. 😏)
This stupid episode assumes too much.
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