fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Anthropology@mander.xyzEnglish · 23 days agoThe midlife crisis is not universal: Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.www.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkThe midlife crisis is not universal: Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.www.nature.comfossilesque@mander.xyzM to Anthropology@mander.xyzEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareynazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·23 days agoI’ll take an industrialized society over an agrarian almost hunter-gatherer society anyday, even with a mid-life crisis Romanticizing a society without antibiotics and modern healthcare, with a life expectancy of 40 is the height of stupidity
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·23 days ago Their life expectancy is around 70. Who’s romanticizing? The study says that mid life crisis isn’t a biological imperative. Therefore, there is a way to avoid it. False dichotomy. It’s not an either-or scenario. We can build more options. Several, actually.
I’ll take an industrialized society over an agrarian almost hunter-gatherer society anyday, even with a mid-life crisis
Romanticizing a society without antibiotics and modern healthcare, with a life expectancy of 40 is the height of stupidity