Fascinating Facts About Ordinary Medieval People

[Luxman]

In the future people will think we were weird, primitive, superstitious and our traditions stupid, and they will be correct.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/hist...ancient-psycho-secrets-ninja-assassins-009509

 

[sean miguel]

In the future people will think we were weird, primitive, superstitious and our traditions stupid, and they will be correct.

Hey, at least we showered daily. Well some of us did.

 

[Chopper3000]

Isn't Donald Trump classed as medieval?

 

[Rey C.]

In the future people will think we were weird, primitive, superstitious and our traditions stupid, and they will be correct.

So much as we do now when looking back in time, the people in the future will judge us based on their own social norms and sensibilities, having limited knowledge and understanding of our time. To this day, engineers and scientists haven't figured out how ancient civilizations built certain structures, without the use of computers, 3D modeling, CAD/CAM systems or the heavy equipment that we have access to. To this day, there are many ancient languages and customs that we cannot comprehend. In so many areas, from medicine to astronomy, we still don't know how these people did what they did. Yet, we are so arrogant in our ignorance that we totally dismiss them because they did something that we don't like. They did not fit our modern sense of political correctness, so boo on them.

Pride precedes the fall. Based on the social decay that I see now, which is likely to continue... I think that many of us alive today would look at these future people and think that they are weird, weak, silly and foolish. I honestly think that the movie Idiocracy at least partially tells the story of what the future may look like.

 

[Luxman]

I posted the wrong link in my first post above, it should have been this link:
https://listverse.com/2018/01/21/top-10-fascinating-facts-about-ordinary-medieval-people/

We can't really compare what we know and understand about medieval people compared to what people 500 years from now will know and understand about us.
The obvious and main difference is that we have billions of cameras recording daily life, and billions of paper books being printed in the last few decades alone, whereas only thousands were printed in medieval times when most people couldn't even read or write.
500 years ago they barely had any concept or knowledge of science, ancient civilizations about 2000 years ago were more advanced until the religious nutjobs destroyed most books that weren't about their retarded religious ideologies and caused over a millennium of darkness, stagnation and degradation of human civilization, until the renaissance started.
Over 1000 years wasted because of retarded primitive religious ideological crap, the world would be completely different and infinitely better if religion had never been invented.

 

[Rey C.]

We have no way of knowing what people 500 years from now will know, or won't know, about us... or how accurate their perceptions may be. You said it yourself, when speaking about the Dark Ages. Who is to say that there will not be a nuclear conflict, or some other calamity (natural or man made), that once again sets back humanity? And even if that doesn't happen, who knows what sort of historical, PC "white washing" (from ideologues on the left or the right) might go on over the ages going forward?

History is written by the victors. - Walter Benjamin

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 

[Johan]

Maybe, maybe not.
Ancient greeks, for example aren't considered primitive

Isn't Donald Trump classed as medieval?

Nope. Medieval people valued honor.
He's more like neanderthalian

 

[Will E Worm]

In the future people will think we were weird, primitive, superstitious and our traditions stupid, and they will be correct.

There might not be a future if things continue the way they are.

Also, they will not be correct.

Some of the things they did in Antiquity we are just now figuring out.


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Our ancestors didn't allow invaders into their countries without a fight. :yoda:

 

[~~whimsy~~]

There might not be a future if things continue the way they are.

Also, they will not be correct.

Some of the things they did in Antiquity we are just now figuring out.


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Our ancestors didn't allow invaders into their countries without a fight. :yoda:

Those skills aren't completely dead, though.

 

[Rey C.]

Nope. Medieval people valued honor.
He's more like neanderthalian

And my point is made. Why do you assume that (all or in general) medieval people valued honor? And how do you know that Neanderthals didn't also value honor?

So you see, people develop simple perceptions based on whatever their modern sensibilities and culture tell them is the truth about people that are more complex than we want to admit. We judge people that lived hundreds or thousands of years ago, based on how close they were to our politically correct or socially acceptable modern norms. Yet, few groups or cultures are/were all good or all bad.

 

[Luxman]

Everyone perceives the world in a different way, perceptions are mainly shaped by the people, experiences and environment we grew up with.
Even our own neighbors can be perceived as weird especially if they are from a different country, culture or religion.
People 500 years from now will have way better knowledge of our society mainly because they will have vast amounts of digital records of our lives, unless there is an extinction level event.
They may not understand some parts of our society, but they will have countless billions of books, photos, and videos of us to study or entertain themselves.
The vast amounts of digital media we are creating today will have a major influence in how the future is shaped.
That's why I personally think parts of the environment/culture/customs/traditions we live in are weird and stupid.
That was the point of my original statement/opinion.

In the future people will think we were weird, primitive, superstitious and our traditions stupid, and they will be correct.

Most people pretend to be like everyone else in public, and are our real selves only in the privacy of our homes.