Actually, it is quite complicated for our brains. Our brains have real limitations and will be unlikely to evolve to manage them as we can't process more information compared to what people 100s of years ago processed but our brains are processing more for longer periods of time. This is why they hypothesize the rise in anxiety, ADHD, ADD, sleep issues, etc. Even something as small as blue light disruption over decades creates long-term sleep issues. You can compare it to the way light at night disrupts the flights of nocturnally migrating animals. Your brain is quite literally performing 1000s of processes just sitting in a room talking. Add in dings from cell phones. Fluroscent lights. The glare of the TV or other screens. Honking from horns or the sounds of trucks running past. The radio playing loudly in the background. Your brain has to process in order to filter it out even if you don't purposefully filter it out. We interact with more people than ever -both directly and indirectly. We have more visual and auditory stimuli. Humans are overly stimulated and underconnected. The stresses are absolutely different. |
Yep this. Our ancestors, for all of the challenges they faced, were far more resilient. There’s a connection there. This modern era’s big challenge is figuring out how to increase welfare for everyone and address the very real decline of mental health at the same time. |
I did give birth in a hospital. Had a C-section because my baby was 12 pounds at birth. I would have died in that field long ago. |
And many women have died in the hopsital that wouldn’t have if they’d been at home. This thread isn’t about modern health care system but let’s not pretend it’s actually working all that well! Especially as maternal mortality rates in the US rise. |
Right. Hunter gatherers where femicide was often enthusiastically practiced, women died regularly in childbirth, and lifespan was maybe 40. The good old days. So much awesomeness. … Have you ever even spoken to an anthropologist? |
Natural birth nut job twaddle and misinformation. |
I would like you to try and tell a Holocaust survivor or a Rwanda genocide survivor, to just pick two horrors, that actually your life is harder than theirs because of blue light and cell phone dings. |
No one is minimizing the very real threats faced by previous generations. We are simply stating that the removal of those threats by medical science don't diminish the threats made to our mental health by other advancements. Just like the rates of death by boars in the wild on a boar hunt are not minimized by the death by machinery in factories. Stop arguing nonsense. |
I wouldn't nor did I even suggest to minimize any of those. |
Absolutely not. Go read the studies you weirdo. Modern medicine saves many more lives than it harms but it’s not perfect. |
Oh I see we are breaking down into a binary tribe: natural birth vs hospital birth |
This poster always does this. I think it’s possible that the idea that we aren’t comfortable with where things are for everyone is threatening to people that belong to groups that have made big gains over the last century. I know I feel it sometimes when people say things like—“it was so much better when women were at home with kids” etc etc. but that’s not what we’re talking about here. I’m talking about a world that looks like the one we have, but even better, where women and men from every background have equal opportunities to thrive because they aren’t being absolutely crushed by the top 1% who have made obscene profits off of the technological advancements that are supposed to be making our lives better but are leaving us burnt out instead. Our productivity expectations today are insane compared to the generation of people before us. When I first started my professional career having ONE client meeting a day was a big deal. Now I have ten that I cram in the same number of hours because technology. I don’t think my pay increased to reflect that. Just an example. |
One of us is, but I’m not. Maternal mortality is on the rise across all demographics in the US. It’s not a natural birth talking point, just a fact. People really like tribal arguments instead of engaging with reality though. |
You people are the ones in this thread saying this is the most stressful and complicated time to live ever. That was literally written by one of you. Of course people are going to point out the abject absurdity of that statement. |
I have undoubtedly read more studies about maternal mortality than you have. Your scientific illiteracy is showing. |