Anonymous OP 9w

Cause we stopped having to know all that and consolidated our efforts. This is the same why don’t we build pyramids anymore argument. We dont have to. Granted i see ur larger point about over relying on the internet but this doesn’t change with any time period of the 20th century. of People in the 1960s would’ve been equally fucked as us if the world fell

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Anonymous #1 9w

On top of everything, ur just changing priorities. Yes basic wilderness survival skills have dwindled in comparison to the past. But largely cause of other advances in science, medicine, and engineering that made them obsolete in most situations.

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Anonymous #1 9w

but are we really advanced if we could be almost completely reset with one huge cyber weapon

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Anonymous OP 9w

Past generations could have been easily wiped out by simple diseases that we have endless cures for.

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Anonymous #1 9w

And i dont think people would die without internet. Electricity, water, and other essentials. Yeah we are fucked

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Anonymous #1 9w

the difference is we’d be reset to near caveman times and they’d lose half their population but still retain most progress

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Anonymous #1 9w

its not about dying. its about our intellect being fragile, our progress can easily be reset

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Anonymous OP 9w

I dont think i understand. If all the underwater cables, all the servers, and anything connecting one computer to another went caput. I dont think it would be as apocalyptic as u think. That being previously mentioned essentials are untouched.

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Anonymous OP 9w

Knowledge is always fragile, thats why the burning of the library of alexandria was so tragic.

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Anonymous OP 9w

All in all if we had to progress with 0 internet going forward, it would probably set us back like 40-50 yrs knowledge and intellectual resource wise. Awful but not end of the world

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Anonymous #1 9w

but people used to know things like how to work with different materials, wood, cloth, metal, etc. how to plant with different kinds of soil, how to make intricate food without a recipe, and by scouting out the ingredients around you. if we lost the internet, because so few people teach themselves this stuff, we would have to go back to trying different berries and hoping its not poison. caveman level rediscovering our environment

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Anonymous OP 9w

Ok when was the last time this was common knowledge (more than 25% of people know it) Like maybe 100-150 yrs ago and even then it wasn’t that well known . And books exist like i seriously dont understand how u think internet is like this pillar on which all of society functions on.

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Anonymous OP 9w

Our great grandparents probably didnt know this shit

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Anonymous #1 9w

our great grandmothers did

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Anonymous OP 9w

No, unless ur like 40. Ur great grandparents probably were born in the 1920’s maybe 1900 at the earliest. I promise u it wasnt that well known how to be this ultimate survival person at that time

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Anonymous OP 9w

These arguments are so weird about this idyllic past. People in the past struggled to survive in the wilderness just as much as we would now. The internet was not the crutch, modern technology, electricity and urbanization caused it. The internet just connected the world easier. Its really not this crux which the entire world balances on. The internet went live less than 40 yrs ago. If u think people in the 80s knew how to survive better than us, ur kidding urself.

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