This is the truth, and not just for different countries/cultures. It applies to the whole world.
The natural state of man is abject poverty, a few days if not hours away from dying of starvation, infection, broken limbs, excessive heat/cold/water/fire, hungry animals, and countless other miserable ways to die.
Every action of human advancement, from when Crog the caveman first figured out how to secure a pointy rock to a stick up until today has been Crog (and descendants) telling Mother Nature (who is an absolute, murderous monster) and that complete jerk Grog living in the next cave over "Screw you, I'm going to keep me and mine safe and try to get us lives which are as comfortable as possible!"
I don't know if it is ignorance, ridiculously easy lives where they're never had to do anything hard, a sense of entitlement/superiority, or a combination thereof, but the same people who ignore the dangers around them (and amplify minor o non-dangers) also seem determined to undo as much of what civilization as accomplished over history as possible.
This is the truth, and not just for different countries/cultures. It applies to the whole world.
The natural state of man is abject poverty, a few days if not hours away from dying of starvation, infection, broken limbs, excessive heat/cold/water/fire, hungry animals, and countless other miserable ways to die.
Every action of human advancement, from when Crog the caveman first figured out how to secure a pointy rock to a stick up until today has been Crog (and descendants) telling Mother Nature (who is an absolute, murderous monster) and that complete jerk Grog living in the next cave over "Screw you, I'm going to keep me and mine safe and try to get us lives which are as comfortable as possible!"
I don't know if it is ignorance, ridiculously easy lives where they're never had to do anything hard, a sense of entitlement/superiority, or a combination thereof, but the same people who ignore the dangers around them (and amplify minor o non-dangers) also seem determined to undo as much of what civilization as accomplished over history as possible.