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Affluent Societies Don't Produce Communities That Need the Individual for Anything
I wasn't there in the early nineties, that's for sure, but it was amazing to see and hear from people how horrible everything was back then. One thing i thought was really strange was a lot of people were happier during the middle of this absolute herrendous crisis. And that experience was mirrored and belgrade when people said their favorite time when they were younger was when the us Was bombing serbia. It is just incredibly common that hardship and danger produce positive emotional reactions in people. If you think about t in evolutionary terms, it couldn't be otherwise. We evolve in very, very dangerous environmentt we are the descendants of people who responded in socially positive ways to hardship and