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>Like most pre-modern societies, at least half of the Byzantine population was under twenty years of age at any given point.

Fascinating

>> No.608658

So... pre-modern society = high school? Sweet.

>> No.608685

probably why they had so many riots and why life was so shity


but then again. teenager is a cpaitalist construct of the 50's

>> No.608695

>>608685

>and why life was so shity

Bias detected.

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608702

>>608695
>implying lack of bias exists
problem?

>> No.608737

Isn't the proportion nearly the same in many middle-eastern countries, right now?

>> No.608816

>>608685

and we have oil spills, internet pornography, riots, poverty, overpopulation, stress, suicide and aids

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>>608816
>oil spills
Electricity
>internet pornography
expression of sexuality in the information age
>riots
why is this particular to just the modern age?
>poverty
Another constant since the dawn of agricultural civilization
>overpopulation
result of the triumph of society over wilderness
>stress
technology
>suicide
stress
>aids
technology


The bottom line: technology brings good and bad.And people are just plain assholes to begin with.

>> No.608857

>>608839

Wait, what are you even arguing about? That life now is better/worse/same or what?

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>>608857
idiots take a thesis like better/worse

realists just state the facts as they are. Your post was an overgeneralization of facts. I just added the honest truth to the equation

>> No.608876

>>608839
technology is responsible for aids? What?

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608880

>>608702
>implying something for a reason beyond proofs

Pessimism Detected. Enjoy your unhappiness.

>> No.608884

>this thread

whattheshitamireading.jpg

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>>608876
maybe, maybe not. Bit of a gamble really

>A more controversial theory known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis suggests that the AIDS epidemic was inadvertently started in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a poliomyelitis vaccine.[153][154] According to scientific consensus, this scenario is not supported by the available evidence.[155][156][157]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#History

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>>608880
and your point is?

>> No.608895

>>608889
Umm...more like conspiracy theory. Not a gamble.

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>>608895
I'll be honest and say that I'd been working under the framework that this thesis was scientific fact. Wikipedia post showed me it was otherwise, but what the heck.

>> No.608903

>>608869

My post was what??? I replied to a guy that said life in Byzantine times was shity, by listing bad things that were non existent then and you assume I was saying life then was superior as it is now.

>> No.608908

>>608903
yes, thats what I took it to be.

>> No.608912

>>608892
O behold the enchantment whence thee realize I was pessimistic about your pessimism and thus proving while still disproving your point in a never-ending paradox.

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>>608912
Indeed

>> No.608935

>>608908

Then start reading twice all posts you are replaying to.

>> No.608941

>>608921
Or so the african-american said, in Oppositeburg while consistently fleeting with mindful observations in his lyricism. No pun intended - there.