Ucivilizovat se k smrti? - Cena, kterou platíme za pokrok – Ryan Christopher (2022)

Do modern people, even the happiest among us, live significantly better than our ancestors from pre-civilization times? Is civilization as a whole a pure benefit for individual human beings? Ryan argues that we should start looking back to find a way to a better future. Progress, the fundamental illusion of our time, is exhausted. Most of us instinctively feel that something is ending – the parched December days, face-to-face conversations replaced by zombified interactions from head to screen, a world in constant war, a political system in chaos. Some myths and lies we hear so often that they seem like truths: Civilization is humanity's greatest achievement. Progress is undeniable. You are lucky to live here and now... Prehistoric life was certainly not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many children died in infancy. A broken bone, an infected wound, a snake bite, or a problematic pregnancy could be fatal. But were these pre-civilizational dangers ultimately worse than modern calamities such as car accidents, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, or the technologically prolonged process of dying? A visitor from 20,000 years ago would undoubtedly be amazed by much of what they would find here. But once their astonishment at...