Did we get weaker and dumber over time?

Question

Why is it that people in the past seem to be stronger and seem to have been far more brave then people now.

Example: Spartans, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greeks, and just about everyone else in the past.

The buildings people made in the past are amazing they had to have been very smart to make them with the limited technology they had.
The engineering behind them is just as advanced as todays.

Plus its hard enough remembering the formulas for math imagine having to invent them.

Answer 1

We have gotten lazier because we don't have to do as much to survive. We let our machines and contraptions do it all. We haven't gotten dumber as a whole because there is much more knowledge available than there ever was and we keep advancing it...but there are more and more people who don't need to learn anything to survive, again because we have technology, food available, so they don't have to really think how they are going to get their necessities as much as they did in the past. Yes we have advanced but in some ways we have regressed too. Good question.

Answer 2

I don't think it's so much that we've de-evolved as it is we no longer feel the need to be brave and clever. We've already had just about everything we could ever want invented for us by someone else. It's just real easy for us to be lazy now.

Far as being brave goes, back then you were expected to be able to survive and defend yourself. Now if you try to defend yourself against a mugger or burgler, you wind up getting sued. Forget about waging war on the neighboring suburbs. As much as the idea of declaring war on the city block to the southeast appeals to me (bunch of registered sex offenders live there, bleh), the idea of an extended prison stay keeps me planted in the recliner instead.

Plus, they didn't have Xbox and cable TV to keep them entertained back then, so I'm sure figuring out obscenely long math equations was the next best thing. ;)

Answer 3

We are developed by the demands we place on ourselves as a society. People who cannot labor still reproduce, because most people have enough access to education to do something that is not physically demanding. We do not choose our mates for things like strength and endurance, we mostly choose them for economic reasons, or the indicators of economic success (like cars, clothes, cologne).

Still, the feather color of a bird is easily changed, but the same bird design is under those feathers. Mankind is not that different overall, and could revert to the hardiness of spartans within a couple generations at need.

We are not dumber either. The greeks and Persians had their 'rocket scientists' and so do we. About the same proportion of people are still inventing formulas.

We are new and improved, in some respects, like disease resistance. TB, Cholera and syphilus were in decline even before treatments were found for them, because we dropped dead of them in droves for hundreds of years.

We are better conditioned in some respects: nearly everyone in developed countries is taught math and literacy during the window of development for true understanding... Although we do this at the expense of developing our bone density and tendon strength, we need literacy/numeracy more in our society than heavy bones and tendons.

Human beings are a vary maleable type, it is handy to be a people, and get to use the multi-tool of intelligence to meet our needs, instead of the dumb endurance of less clever or dextrous critters.

Answer 4

Because in the past we didn't have T.V.,remote controls,cars,computers,phones,microwaves,electricity and every thing else that makes our lives so easy. People had to work PHYSICALLY back then. Building roads--boats--houses,planting gardens for food and they did it with there hands and feet not machines..Yes we are and have gotten SOFT....As for the dumber part....Not me,I am intelligent and I seek to learn more every day. I'm 49 and still go to school.

Answer 5

I wouldn't say that we are "dumber," we have electricity, the Internet, cars, and all the other technology. But i will say that if something happened and we lost all of that and had to live in small communities to survive, then a lot of people would die. They were really smart with what they had to use and we are really smart with what we have to use.

Answer 6

The Stronger the Nation, militarily and economically. They weaker the people. It's the Nature of the Beast. The material body and material world. And we take what we have for granted.

Answer 7

till now cutting-area technology non secular preachers wrongly theory dropping seminal fluid, different than interior a vagina, weakened adult males. till even the Nineteen Seventies masturbation replace into stored a shameful secret with the help of almost everybody. it rather is merely because of the fact the Nineteen Nineties that maximum persons admitted to it. yet it nonetheless is a lot joked approximately. You rightly observed because it a "present". it rather is a organic tension-launch valve that does wonders for psychological well-being, circulation and the prostate. too lots of a sturdy factor although will tire you. I recommend fewer yet greater effective sessions, wherein you saviour the sensations greater. i wanted young little ones might *no longer* rush into intercourse and experience masturbating greater before (no pun meant!). It trains you to regulate your penis and makes one sense so particularly alive!

Answer 8

Just take a look at America and I think you migt see where things are going wrong. Stand on a youth soccer field or attend a little league game and see that some are no longer keeping score because it might hurt "little johnny's" feelings.

Answer 9

Not really. You said "we". Who are you referring to as "we". Every country rises and falls, just like every person is born and then dies. Who are you to determine who is ignorant. Did you ask us? No. You only insert "we" as if to say that "we" all agree in which "we" do not. There are many people who are in this world who are very bright and strong and there are the opposite of course. But, to state "we" is a generalization and you are using it to manipulate your preconcieved ideas.

Answer 10

Ya but they had slaves and beat them didn't they? I mean if someone beat me I guess I'd work my butt off too.