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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
More like societies period are racist, sexist, inequitable, destructive and terrorizing.
I think modern post-colonialist capitalist societies are in a pretty good place compared to the history of humanity but we have a ways to go yet.
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Possibly true, although I would argue that aboriginal societies pre-European contact exhibited very few of the negative traits we are recognizing. Also, there is a very distinct and insidious undercurrent of racism underpinning all colonialist histories.
Despite the negatives, there is no doubt that by any measure the state of the world for humans is the best it has ever been.