Is it better to be primitive, or primal?

Question

I've seen many people refer to the people in the Bible as "primitive." Perhaps they were, but are we any better? Are we REALLY?
What have we REALLY learned over the past four thousand years since the Bible was written? Better ways to kill thousands of people at once? Better and easier ways to hurt each other? Better ways to tear apart families (adultery, for example)? Better ways to screw up our kids? More powerful biological weapons?
So which is better, a community in which people mostly treated each other with respect and held on to each other, a community where poor childless widows were ALWAYS taken care of, a community where everything was shared...or what we have now?
Do we honestly call the world now PROGRESS?
Is this smug superiority warranted? Any thoughts?
Almost out of room, I want to edit this with one more thing:
(Details to follow....)

In the Bible, there is a lot of war...but archaeology shows it wasn't always like that. Every day life in those times was ordinary, though hard.

I may add more details as I receive answers, depending on what kind of answers I receive.

Answer 1

We have learned that the ruling classes are no longer the be all end all of things, we have learned that the church does horrible things in its name, we have had leaps and bounds in technology. Part of the world has learned the value of personal freedom. Democracy for the win.

Oh and we have moved away from being a collective group to individualism.

Answer 2

There is a flip side to everything. Yes,we have learned"better" ways of killing people,with the same knowledge,we have learned to provide power to millions in a relatively safe manner. As far as tearing apart families,how about committing adultery with your friends wife,then ordering the friend off to die,yet still manage to be " a man of God" (see the story of David)..Better ways to screw up our kids?I think God topped it all when he sent a she bear to KILL some kids for calling his prophet baldy,basically.Better biological weapons?With all our research,we have yet to match the fury of God's plagues. On and on,you add detail,I'll follow

Answer 3

We've learned that slavery is bad, women have rights too, and that people don't deserve to be stoned to death for lying about some minute thing.