how advanced would humans be?

[Fugitive]

This concept of a Dark Age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature. Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.

The rise of archaeology and other specialties in the 20th century has shed much light on the period and offered a more nuanced understanding of its positive developments. Other terms of periodization have come to the fore: Late Antiquity, the Early Middle Ages, and the Great Migrations, depending on which aspects of culture are being emphasized.

I think what we're starting to see now is another age in society, the age of over indulgence. It is easy to write off our ancestors as stupid but is that really the case? The human brain hasnâ??t changed significantly over the last few thousand years. They would have had more restrictions to survive, raising crops and preparing for winter. The environment was tough and would have weeded out the stupid, gullible etc. Today we live more sheltered life away from the harsh environment of nature.

[Iyaman]

the ultimate suppressor is religion. if we never had it we would probably be a thousand years more advanced. humans were always taught to work and think within the bounderies of their religion and if they didn't, they got killed.

[krazy chino]

in technology we are very advanced but in logic and wisdom and knowledge of life we are way behind or perhaps goin backwards.......humankind is commiting suicide we're stupid and were killing ourselfs not slowly but very fuckin quick............were all doomed in a very advanced way

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

relax, nature has a way of preserving the strongest specimens. toughen up.

[khronik]

Say what you will about Christianity, but the relative peace it brought to Europe allowed the Industrial Revolution to take root.

Anyway, I'm personally thrilled to be living during an age where we're right on the cusp of all these breakthroughs but we aren't quite there yet.

[Iyaman]

Say what you will about Christianity, but the relative peace it brought to Europe allowed the Industrial Revolution to take root.

Anyway, I'm personally thrilled to be living during an age where we're right on the cusp of all these breakthroughs but we aren't quite there yet.

if there wasn't religion many conflicts wouldn't have started in the first place.
and if there was conflict, we wouldn't have needed some theists to sort it out. Sensible logical people would have done so.

[Dream of the iris]

Advancement and technology don't remove what makes us human , the feelings we have , the ideas and creativity.
Because emotions make us what we are we must also contend with negative sides of each emotion and the consequences of those "drives".
The drive to procreate, the drive to be Alpha male/female , not to mention greed, envy and the other 5 deadly sins all lead to conflict on some level. The nationalism and patriotism you feel is simply an extension of the tribalism of our ancestors , even within a town there are tribe (neighborhood) issues and the lowest level tribes are the street gangs we see more and more.

Add all this together and you will understand that what makes us human holds us back.

Yes! The key to our survival as a race is to move beyond those primitive feelings. Only then will we make true progress with both technology (with those feelings gone, organized religion will surely follow) and socially.

[rebgirl420]

Thank god we got through The Dark Ages and the Roman Empire. Because if we didn't we wouldn't have had the will to strive for even greater things.

These "mistakes" taught us valuable lessons about the human race.

[TurnyBright]

Our tool-using nature spurred us into high-gear proliferation mode with an emphasis on survival, and what is the right to survive but the means? The initiative?

Technology was an exciting development in human history, but people found out what they could do, and got excited and did it all, but now no one is really excited anymore. Nevertheless, everything has changed and it's hard to imagine existing the way it was before things changed.

A common wish of mine is that somehow there was never any technology developed beyond the level of gears and such, but medical technology was really really advanced. That would sure be fun, I would ride my bicycle down a lovely country road past fields of nice crops and windmills and see the potential of the human quality of life fulfill itself.

[zeitgeist]

Forget about the Roman Empire, imagine how smart we would be if the Empire of ancient Mesopotamia survived. They were far more advanced than the Romans ever were. Too bad its never taught in the history books.

But if this civilization would have survived we would basically be living like aliens with anything the imagination could think of