Yes, but only if literally all the people said that. Progress happens because the vast masses adopt the new ideas of a very small number of innovators.
And we’d all be much better off for it.
At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
Then we’d be extinct you mean.
…*had* said to themselves…
Looks at grass “It is what it is” Sleeps outside
Would we be happier?
…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams
It would’ve been what it would’ve been…
There MUST be more to this provincial life!
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and did live exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
It was what it was
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
☝️🤓
but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say “it is what it is,” in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that’s on you.
I think saying that is just human nature. There’s not much you can do to change human nature. It is what it is.
Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.
