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lol at falling for the "good person" meme. The propaganda from the elites really got you good.
This modern notion of what it means to be a "good person" is a very recent fabrication that was just made to control people in a Godless society. Historically, it just wasn't a thing.
If you said "good person" to anyone from the Classical Greek period or to ancient Romans, they'd instantly think of someone who is strong, rich, intelligent, high status, etc. Good just meant useful, desired, beneficial, or of high quality. It didn't have any moral connotations. This modern societal obsession with being seen as a good person simply didn't exist. If you said "bad person" to a Roman, they'd just think you're talking about some sickly broke loser. Not about someone who is "evil".
Yes, they believed in Gods, but being loyal to their Gods wasn't the most important thing in their lives. Their Gods also didn't have a book of rules telling you how to live your life to be considered "good" so that you'd get greenlit into the "cool kids club" when you die. (heaven)
Ancient Greeks didn't believe in post death judgment because the Greeks didn't have a concept of heaven and hell. They saw the afterlife as a cheerless phase. There were no fixed or enforced beliefs about life after death in ancient Rome. The general consensus was that the deceased lived on in the Underworld.
Nobody cared about being a moral person in the past. Sure, you were expected to be loyal to your family and friends, to be honest when conducting business and to respect the law of where you lived, but that was about it. You had zero moral obligations to random strangers. Absolutely zero. It was like this in most of the world.
Eventually christianity took over and the most important thing in someone's life was to be a devout christian and to go to heaven.
Everyone was obsessed with being a man of God. Because now there were consequences for being "bad" and a reward for being "good" in the afterlife. It was the perfect ideology to control people. The peasants would work their asses off their whole lives and follow all of the rules, living modestly without any unnecessary pleasures, and eventually they'd get to enjoy themselves in the afterlife!
But once religion started declining in the West, the elites were very worried. How would they keep the common people in check without afterlife consequences for their actions? They came up with a ridiculous solution that somehow worked. (Normies are brainless)
What was their masterful plan you might ask?
They just invested in propaganda that would shame people into following traditionally Christian values by calling them "bad" if they didn't and reward them by praising them and calling them "good" if they did.
Now being a good person became entirely attached to moral virtue. Normies will look at someone who is superior to them in every way - good looking, whealthy, successful, call them a bad person and walk away thinking they "won"
This modern notion of what it means to be a "good person" is a very recent fabrication that was just made to control people in a Godless society. Historically, it just wasn't a thing.
If you said "good person" to anyone from the Classical Greek period or to ancient Romans, they'd instantly think of someone who is strong, rich, intelligent, high status, etc. Good just meant useful, desired, beneficial, or of high quality. It didn't have any moral connotations. This modern societal obsession with being seen as a good person simply didn't exist. If you said "bad person" to a Roman, they'd just think you're talking about some sickly broke loser. Not about someone who is "evil".
Yes, they believed in Gods, but being loyal to their Gods wasn't the most important thing in their lives. Their Gods also didn't have a book of rules telling you how to live your life to be considered "good" so that you'd get greenlit into the "cool kids club" when you die. (heaven)
Ancient Greeks didn't believe in post death judgment because the Greeks didn't have a concept of heaven and hell. They saw the afterlife as a cheerless phase. There were no fixed or enforced beliefs about life after death in ancient Rome. The general consensus was that the deceased lived on in the Underworld.
Nobody cared about being a moral person in the past. Sure, you were expected to be loyal to your family and friends, to be honest when conducting business and to respect the law of where you lived, but that was about it. You had zero moral obligations to random strangers. Absolutely zero. It was like this in most of the world.
Eventually christianity took over and the most important thing in someone's life was to be a devout christian and to go to heaven.
Everyone was obsessed with being a man of God. Because now there were consequences for being "bad" and a reward for being "good" in the afterlife. It was the perfect ideology to control people. The peasants would work their asses off their whole lives and follow all of the rules, living modestly without any unnecessary pleasures, and eventually they'd get to enjoy themselves in the afterlife!
But once religion started declining in the West, the elites were very worried. How would they keep the common people in check without afterlife consequences for their actions? They came up with a ridiculous solution that somehow worked. (Normies are brainless)
What was their masterful plan you might ask?
They just invested in propaganda that would shame people into following traditionally Christian values by calling them "bad" if they didn't and reward them by praising them and calling them "good" if they did.
Now being a good person became entirely attached to moral virtue. Normies will look at someone who is superior to them in every way - good looking, whealthy, successful, call them a bad person and walk away thinking they "won"
