Why do some people pretend the medieval times didn't suck? The literacy rate was 10% and only about 50% of people made it to adulthood.
>muh literacyThe only thing that literacy achieves is leftist indoctrination. You don't need to be literate to work and be a productive member of society.
Literacy mean writing and reading latin. Mortality was high during all chapters of history.Major developments or developments that laid the groundwork for the renaissance and onward were laid during the middle ages.
>>526409856>have house>meaningful work>loyal wife>close community>government that doesnt try to destroy you >healthy food
>>526409856>The Under-Man is unconvertible. He will not bow to the new truth, because he knows that the new truth is not for him. Why should he work for a higher civilization, when even the present civilization is beyond his powers ? >What the Under-Man wants is, not progress, but regress, regress to more primitive conditions in which he would be at home. In fact, the more he grasps the significance of the new eugenic truth, the uglier grows his mood. So long as all men believed all men potentially equal, the Under-Man could delude himself into thinking that changed circumstances might raise him to the top. Now that nature herself proclaims him irremediably inferior, his hatred of superiority knows no bounds. >This hatred he has always instinctively felt. Envy and resentment of superiority have ever been the badges of base minds. Yet never have these badges been so fiercely flaunted, so defiantly worn, as today. This explains the seeming paradox that, just when the character of superiority becomes supremely manifest, the cry for levelling "equality" rises supremely shrill. The Under-Man revolts against progress! Nature herself having decreed him uncivilizable, the Under-Man declares war on civilization. >These are not pretty facts. But we had better face them, lest they face us, and catch us unawares. Let us, then, understand once and for all that we have among us a rebel army the vast host of the unadaptable, the incapable, the envious, the discontented, filled with instinctive hatred of civilization and progress, and ready on the instant to rise in revolt. ---Stoddard, Lothrop: Revolt Against Civilization, the Menace of the Under-Man. 1922 Chapman and Hall
>Owned house and land>Virgin wife married to you at 15>9 kids>Small ethnically homogenous community you knew intimately and were a core part
>>526409856you're american'tyou know nothing about anything so shut the fuck up NIGGER
>>526409856>little record keeping by mostly illiterate population that could not afford to waste pergament>we have these super accurate statistics about that specific time period
>>526409856>literacy rate was 10%the fuck you need literacy for, do niggers like you have any idea how expensive books were? fuck off!
>>526409856This propaganda campaign that christcucks have been doing these last decades by trying to change history is really funny, because their motivation is borne out of a miscalculationChristcucks think history revealing christcuckery's societal effects are the reason why younger aryans are turning away from it, but it is, and will always be, because of how cucked, foreign, feminine, feministic, and kiked your desert death cult is, and no amount of rewriting history will change thisSemitic religions are doomed to fall in the next few centuriesOh, and your brigades of literal shills, paid 3rd worlders, and now probably LLMs as well, will not change anything on /pol/ or elsewhere, but please, waste your money some more
>>526409856Most of the early deaths were from infant mortality. It was a good thing because it was a filter against mutants. We got rid of it and now we are drowning in mentally ill leftists.
I am reminded of how many times people died building cathedrals because they didn't understand math since it wasn't taught to the public anymore post-Roman Empire. Projects often took decades, not for a lack of manpower or resources, but because they had no concept of how to make engineering work without math. Dome collapses were a frequent occurrence. They'd go to the Pantheon, point at it, and go ME WANT DAT FOR CHURCH without understanding how it worked.
>>526409856Based. Why should I want everyone making it to adulthood? So there can be more traffic, lines, and trash everywhere? No thanks. Also, why the fuck would I want everyone literate, especially women? Immediately cross off 50% of the population being literate and BAM, there goes obnoxious "educated" feminist cunts, thank god. Knock off another significant number of males being literate and there would be much less "redditor"-type opinionated faggots out there. Holy that society would rule
>>526410634That's fascinating. Now try to translate that into English and tell us what you would like us to do about it.
>>526410634A more succinct way of putting it is that people are atheist these days specifically because they went to church as kids. What did my church teach? Jews are superior, give money to Israel, blessed are nogs. It resonates with no one, and a religion must resonate or it will die. No, pretending it is a "true" religion will not save it. Religion either serves a utility or it goes extinct. And this has always been the case. Esoteric overtures to being "saved" are meaningless. Every religion since the bronze age has said the same shit.
>>526409856That sounds horrible. You mean they couldn't consume the bing bing wahoo yipee games and badass Marvel films? I would kms myself literally.
>>526410197>owned house and landfeudalism lol>9 kidsonly 3 of them survived
>>526409856How peaceful it sounds. Imagine not living with millions of reddit trannies shouting their retarded opinions in canon.
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>>526409856How much did it cost to have a house, a farmland, a virgin woman and 7 children in the Middle Ages compared to today?Yeah that's what I thought.
>>526409856Normies being illiterate was a blessing for everyone
>>526409856At least colonial American larpers want to own land. I don't understand why people want to serve a feudal lord.
>>526411718>I don't understand why people want to serve a feudal lordImagine having your own personal armor-wearing paladin who rushes to your defense and slices some fucker in half when they try to steal your shit. Instead, we have a low-trust police surveillance state which spies on you and rushes in to arrest you if you dare harm some nigger trying to break into your house
>>526411414are you trying to say that the medieval people didn't have it so bad after all?
>>526412054Human intelligence peaked about 150-200 years ago. Modern people are retarded by comparison.
>>526412054"b-but, muh netflix"
>>526409856Its like zombie apocalypse larping. Everyone pretends they would be the survivor.
>>526409856Both are true. Farmer and working peasants are always a thing but history isnt about them because why would it be?
>>526412790"History" is the equivalent of Reddit- it revolves around faggots, degenerates, and retards. Like the literal club-foot tranny pharaoh or the drooling-mongoloid Spanish king. Both useless retards who would amount to precisely nothing if it weren't for history-writers' penchant for faggotry. Chad peasants had no need for "history" because they were too busy doing cool shit like building structures and fucking their loyal chaste wives every day
>>526409856Top = 800 ADBottom = 1200 AD
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>>526410003In Latin and Greek*
>>526409856>The literacy rate was 10%Based. 90% of people are NPC plebs and dont need to read.>only about 50% of people made it to adulthood.Based eugenics in action.
>over 1000 years before His Highness Der Fuhrer>kikes allowed to work with money>kikes even had designated neighborhoods>(((Christian))) church >some war but it didn’t completely destroy Europe until after the Renaissance >most people didn’t even speak a variant of DeutschlandicWe do not like the medieval period. NEXT!
>>526410041>Die from a fever at the age of 30
>>526417405you dont have any of those things though
That time didn't suck, it was a golden age which is why all western fantasy is just repackaged medievalism. It was the white version of the garden of eden. The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>526409856If we lived in medieval times all the christkikes would journey far and wide to come visit me like they did with saint lidwina. They believed that god touched her hand so she would suffer for everyone’s sins. I wouldn’t like that
>>526409856a lot of people would probably be better off being illiterate. all they do with their literacy is to consume propaganda which fucks with their head
>>526410041>government that doesnt try to destroy youAlso government>flagulation>inquisitions>witch burnings>conscription into crusades
>>526417405>muh average life expectancy brought low by high infant mortality rateOnce you made it past 5 years of age you were set to live well past 60.
>>526410041Lets be honest the food wasn't that healthy for most of the year.Especially during winters, food was basically porridge for the entire season for the common folk. But at least it wasn't chemically altered, so there's that. Also, depending at what level of government and what period you're looking at, government was still trying to kill you. Your local lord? Nah he's an alright dude, the king was often a dick, however. Though still to a lesser degree than our current deeply corrupt governments that bow to no god other than coin.The rest is pretty spot on though.
>>526417405>whining inferior genetic stock Swedcuck, obviously no Dolph LundgrenNo one wants you around more than 30 years, even that is bad enough
>>526411281But you could listen to troubadours to get your dose of fiction.
>>526409856Any age before modern age was hard. Before modern medicine most of us wouldn't survive childhood, modern farming and food preservation has reduced starvation, industrialization has allowed us to have luxuries that kings of yester years could only dream of and internet has made spreading of knowledge easier then ever. While current age has it's problems we should strive to make the next age better for our kids and their kids, just like our ancestors did for us.
>>526418256>witch burningsSay no more. No need to conscript me, where do I sign up? God, what a badass time to be alive that must have been
>>526418256>flagellantspeople whipping themselves for fun not the government>inquisitionswe're talking about white mediaeval times not spain>witch burningsthey didn't have to live with witches like us, based>conscriptionYeah imagine fighting muslims with the full support of your government instead of just letting them rip you off on an industrial scale while they call you racist, how horrible.
>>526409856Medieval times were far superior to contemporary times in many ways. Peasants had lives and holidays. jew degenerate shit wasn’t in every home and on every corner.
>>526418522They didn't need much fantasy because they already lived in a heroic narrative.
>>526412406> Everyone pretends they would be the survivor.That’s what is happening at any possible moment in time and always has. Aren’t we all larping as survivors each day?
>>526411293In almost all of Europe you owned the land and the house, but in most of Europe you didn't have freedom of movement and you were not allowed to sell your land, but no one could take it from you without due reason. You paid your taxes to your lord and church and he mightve had 2-4 lords above him until it was the king or emperor but your lord could not just take your land. In Russia the peasantry were serfs and they were slaves but with some restrictions on the lords.In addition there were many free men among the peasantry, and the lords didn't have much control over them at all. In Sweden almost everyone were free men.
>>526412243can you form a coherent sentence?
>>526409856> literacy for plebswhy needed exactly?> living a long lifewhy? you reproduce and have a meaningful life grounded in religion
>>526410153The more things change the more spiteful the mutant
>>526417405>had more in 30 years than your 90 year buglife
>>526420066They lived about as long as we do if you correct for infant mortality.
>>526409856>The literacy rate was 10% and only about 50% of people made it to adulthood.When books are rare what's the point of needing to read? And your stats for life expectancy is skewed due to high infant mortality rates.
>>526409856Most people bring it up in comparison precisely because it did suck. As in "things are becoming so shit that even this era that everyone knows was shit had some things over us." The rest is just christkikes trying to do damage control for causing the dark ages.
>>526410041the government was destroying its people, kept them enslaved, waged useless wars killing fellow whites constantly. The food was subpar unless you were the King. The work wasn't meaningful, most of it was unskilled labor that could be performed while drunk.
>>526409966republicans and conservatives globally hate the Educated
>>526409856Jews were forced to wear a special hat to prevent them from pulling any of that "hello fellow goyim" bullshit.
>>526409856but why is that a bad thing?
>>526411172I was Catholic and as a kid we had to help NGOs house migrants here in Illinois. Many of the families in my community were housing Somalis, Eithopians, and other ilk. They worshipped Israel too. Funny enough I grew up in the same area as nick fuentes and charlie kirk, in the Chicago suburbs
>>526421031You don't have to be literate to be educated.
>>526418256nobody falls for the propaganda anymore shekelstein>>526412243have some pity on him. in the dark ages, he would never get Reddit updoots>>526411414yes. Good job reading between the lines, champ >>526411293>only 3 of them survivedas opposed to having zero children now. how terrible
>>526419808due reason was whatever accusation people would make against you. The entire dark ages consisted of greedy and superstitious people claiming others were heretics to steal their land and property. Knights Templar are a good example of that happening.
>>526409856Where and when in medieval times? It ranges from black plague no hope to infinite war rape to the very heights of civilization. Hell today is barely different in terms of range.
>>526420948>most of it was unskilled labor that could be performed while drunkSounds meaningful to me
The number one reason why life is immeasurably better now compared to whatever past world vargtards and various larpers fantasize about is the general growth of sanitary practices and control of diseases and stuff. Virtually every human that existed prior to the 1800s would have had parasites of various types that they didn't even know existed, beyond all the diseases you would be liable to catch that literally don't exist now
>>526421297yes you do, understanding any level of instruction, for any level of skilled task requires literacy and mathematic skills. You are a moron anti-intellectual slave to the jews
>>526421399that's nigger-jeet slave level mundane activity
>>526421078dumb christians were still duped constantly because the Jews were in the Bible and Jesus was a Jew, its how the Jews got rich throughout the middle ages
>>526421078Kek, based.
>>526409856>Only 10-30% taxes>ethnostate>have a King who acts in your interest and keeps the invaders outIt was literal paradise, we didn't know how good we had it
>>526409856>muh literacyMost people cant even read or write properly now. Those who can dont even care to, and most of those who care to are indoctrinated into Marxism Universal education was a mistake, translating the Bible into English and Latin was also a mistake. Everyone should have been forced to learn ancient Greek to keep the Bible uncorrupted
>>526421675Cope and seethe faggot.
I mean they were better than now but that’s not saying much. I’d go live in the early 1900s or Ancient Rome if I could.
>>526421456No it doesn't lol, you think blacksmiths and tanners were reading textbooks not being taught verbally? What you think of as education is a mass-produced facsimile and substitute for having a teacher that both knows what they're talking about, teaches something useful and is invested in you learning it. A system for training bugpeople to be disposable employees created by the industrial revolution.
>>526421552Working while drunk sounds good to me.>that's nigger-jeet slave level mundane activityYou talk as if something is bad just for being mundane or simple, some people like doing physical labour, or having a simple life.
>>526410153>blah blah blah if you don't like the cyberpunk dystopia you're a heckin under-manThat Stoddard faggot must have been high as a kite off his farts
>>526410634>>526414372kek>>526420744>believing the dark ages memeLOL
>>526409856>But bro the peasants worked less hours than us and....SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM TIRED OF HEARING YOU PATHETIC FUCKS WHINE ABOUT HOW "GOOD" LIVING IN THE FUCKING STONE AGE WAS.PEOPLES AVERAGE AGE WAS 30 OR LESS, THERE WAS NO MEDICINE, YOU COULD DIE OF A FUCKING SCRAPE FROM INFECTION, HALF YOUR CHILDREN WOULD DIE IN FRONT OF YOU BEFORE HITTING 18, NO ELECTRICITY, NO MODERN RUNNING WATER, WAR WAS EVERYWHERE. I COULD GO ON AND ON. SITTING HERE ON THE FUCKING INTERNET IN YOUR AIR CONDITIONED ROOM EATING YOUR FUCKING FASTFOOD GOYSLOP WATCHING YOUR FUCKING NETFLIX OR PLAYING YOUR VIDEO GAMESIT WAS A BRUTAL FUCKING WORLD, YOU SPOILED LITTLE SHITS. HOLY FUCK CAN THE ELITES JUST KILL YOU ALREADY.
a lot of people farmed land they owned and sold their produce at the market and rioted if the taxes were raised to 20% from 10%they didn't need to read
>>526420273This, high infant mortality will heavily skew any life expectancy statistic
>>526421442That's nice overblown fear-mongering, meanwhile here in modern reality literally every chick has STDs now past age 15, nevermind taking literally hundreds of dicks on average
>>526422387The Reddit bot is broken
>>526418256>flagulationnot a government thing>inquisitionnot a government thing>witch burningsnot a government thing and mostly not a medieval thing>conscriptionnot a medieval thing
>>526422387You are not very convincing.
>>526422387>SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM TIRED OF HEARING YOU PATHETIC FUCKS WHINE ABOUT HOW "GOOD" LIVING IN THE FUCKING STONE AGE WAS.
>>526422152this makes sense. i think its why the liberals want us to stop homeschooling. i work trades and i never really needed to learn how to read or write either.
>>526409856It was a mixed bag. You'll never have a perfect period of history, only brief times of respite.
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>>526409856What was there to read for the average person?
>>526418256lmao this is the power of american education.
>>526409856Sounds great, peasants are too stupid to interpret writing properly and 50% of people are worthless runts
>>526422855This might go without saying but none of that is covered by our education, he got it all from pop culture.
>>526409856would rather be illiterate in an ethnostate
>>526409856There is probably a lot to hate about living in any time period. Today people live in total abundance and many have to take mind altering drugs to keep from killing themselves. People are funny.
>>526423114based
>>526409856Test
>>526409856>the literacy rate was 10%Yeah because peasants don't need to read as a function of their work. You harvest wheat and plow fields. People were happier then because economies were local, society was family oriented, and people were only expected to do what they could tangibly achieve instead of chasing some abstract vanity to distract from isolation like we have now. A peasant's life only drastically sucked in times of extreme famine, and at that point if you were still alive you'd take whoever's left of your family and live in the city where you'd either become a peddler, or a beggar if you couldn't manage to sell anything. I think people like to pretend that the medieval era in europe was somehow this dystopian nightmare because a majority of people were manual laborers while ignoring the fact that a majority of people in today's society are still inclined to that type of work. Most people are rather simple and expecting a majority of your populace to consist of philosophers, theologians, and scientists would only be possible if you outsourced all the labor to a caste of slaves who aren't technically considered part of the populace. The problem with today's world is that we have this insane expectation that we can somehow mold simpletons into becoming geniuses merely by forcing them to sit in desks, read, and repeat information all day; the end result being that we've set up a majority of our populace for failure by hoping they can be something they aren't rather than ensuring what they are is undisturbed.
>>526409856Everyone thinks they would be the knight, noble or some other important person instead of the countless nobodies that died in a ditch. Actual le west has fallen midwits who have been psyopped into thinking their life is miserable due to one or two specific things that would be fixed if only they lived 100's of years ago. We used to make fun of these born in le wrong generation faggots, but as with anything on the internet they found like minded people and started to think their retardation was popular
>>526424289>t.
>>526409856Because all my ancestors were rulers and conquered their enemies on a whim
>>526424289>not peasantmaxxing
>>526422850That's the thing, literature was written for audiences with advanced minds because the hands and feet of society were not expected to learn how to read. As a result the quality of literature was higher because it was impossible to dumb anything down and expect to be taken seriously. The vocabulary of any book written before the 20th century of light years advanced compared to the simplified, sensationalist, and jargon filled slop we have today.
>>526409856 Both sides of the argument are guilty of bait and switch tactics. The Medievalists will always point to the accomplishments of the late middle age to show how good the era was and the modernists will always point to the early middle ages and the fallout of the collapse of Rome. On the whole the middle ages weren't the mud-drenched hellhole that modernists pretend they are (outside of the British Isles but nothing there has changed) nor are they the tradcath Utopia that medievalists love to shill. Was it better than present day? Yes, but that is an extremely low bar to pass.
>>526409856>The literacy rate was 10%that is only if you use the medieval meaning of literate, meaning you could write and read old greek and latinalmost all people in medieval times could read and write in their own language, but without standartization, so the writing heavily mirrors dialects and accents>and only about 50% of people made it to adulthoodthat was pretty normal until modern medicine and protocols were established
>>526421985>That stick
>>526410041Nigger they ate vegetable soup and bread that was hard as a rock for every meal the entire year except for a few sparse holidays where they got meat. It may have been healthy but don't pretend like the food was palatable.
>>526424780Everyone's an "e-celeb" now too, so all the "know-it-alls" and educational content is shoddy and rehashed. Just noise everywhere
>>526418256>flagulationthat came after in the renaissance, that everone felates>inquisitionsnot as brutal as jews try to paint them asjust don't be a false converter>witch burningsvery rare in medieval timesit mainly happened in the renaissance, that everone felates>conscription into crusadesconscription is widely used in modern timestaking some farmer from the fields is not going to boost your other continent invasionin short, you are gay and stupid
>>526410153This is peak Edwardian Anglo-Saxon pseudo-phrenology type stuff. Embarrassing read.
>>526409856>The literacy rate was 10%Anon, I...I don't have the heart, someone else tell him.
>>526418256I would gladly flagillate myself, if it brought back inquisitions, so we could burn the witches, and free up focus on domestic politics to give me time to focus on crusading in the Holy Land.
>>526426191Holy based.
>>526409856Because we are serfs with 1/10 actual freedom and have to put up with 10x of the kikery.>b-but muh insta whore tour vids??
>>526409856It was a far less fucked up version of the 1800s if you lived anywhere remote, only thing worse were slavers, which were still around until the 1800s anyway.
Okay fuck it I will be honest. USA and Israel didn't existed back then.
>>526422609>>526421297Miggers showing that they’re actually retarded like we’ve known for decadesLmao
>>526409856The smell would literally make you sick, also the plagues
>>526422275>>526425543Now how does the Under-Man look at civilization? This civilization offers him few benefits and fewer hopes. It usually affords him little beyond a meagre subsistence. And, sooner or later, he instinctively senses that he is a failure; that civilization's prizes are not for him. But this civilization, which withholds benefits, does not hesitate to impose burdens. We have previously stated that civilization's heaviest burdens are borne by the superior. Absolutely, this is true; relatively, the Under-Man's intrinsically lighter burdens feel heavier because of his innate incapacity. The very discipline of the social order oppresses the Under-Man; it thwarts and chastises him at every turn. To wild natures society is a torment, while the congenital caveman, placed in civilization, is always in trouble and usually in jail. ---Stoddard, Lothrop: Revolt Against Civilization, the Menace of the Under-Man. 1922 Chapman and Hall
