Why do incels cope by thinking things were better in the past?

[Occultcel]

Yeah, if you lived in the Middle Ages you would’ve gotten a virgin wife, but there was a good chance you would die in war or contract some fatal disease. Your village probably would’ve gotten sacked by mongols and you would be brutally killed after watching your wife and daughter get raped in front of you. You were probably malnourished and had stunted development from lack of food. You would have likely lived under a religious dictatorship that suppressed all forms of free thinking and speech. You would have been forced by your feudal lord to work the fields all day like a slave. JFL if you would have rather lived back then. Life was shit. I would easily pick the 21st century to live in over any other point in history.

 

[Travesty]

So the past = middle ages only? Humans have existed for tens of thousands of years dude

 

[Bomber517]

Women didn't have rights back then.

 

[Occultcel]

So the past = middle ages only? Humans have existed for tens of thousands of years dude

We didn’t have the technology to live comfortable lives until about 80 years ago. Any time before that would’ve been pure suffering.

 

[Occultcel]

Women didn't have rights back then.

Yeah, and men were still disposable cattle used as cannon fodder in some emperors war and you had no say in the matter

 

[Travesty]

We didn’t have the technology to live comfortable lives until about 80 years ago. Any time before that would’ve been pure suffering.

"Muh technology", what has technology accomplished aside from making people low IQ bots with no souls and miserable psyches?

I would rather live back then - not in the middle ages - have a family and a community and live a simple life than shitpost on looksmax and consume brainrot online to pass the time

 

[AustrianMogger]

Yeah, if you lived in the Middle Ages you would’ve gotten a virgin wife, but there was a good chance you would die in war or contract some fatal disease. Your village probably would’ve gotten sacked by mongols and you would be brutally killed after watching your wife and daughter get raped in front of you. You were probably malnourished and had stunted development from lack of food. You would have likely lived under a religious dictatorship that suppressed all forms of free thinking and speech. You would have been forced by your feudal lord to work the fields all day like a slave. JFL if you would have rather lived back then. Life was shit. I would easily pick the 21st century to live in over any other point in history.

1900s mog

 

[AustrianMogger]

Or 1980 that was peak humanity tb

 

[Occultcel]

1900s mog

Imagine being born in communist Russia with zero freedom and being thrown into WW2 where there was an 80% chance you would get blown to pieces

 

[Giorgio]

going back even 10 years things were a lot better - militant feminism was a lot less mainstream IRL (tho still very prevalent in media and academia etc), dating apps actually worked, I feel like people in general were more "happy" in the 2010s than they are now
just look at the type of songs that were popular back then, almost every single one was about partying and was super upbeat
it was a lot easier IMO in those years to be more successful sexually, nowdays women hate men to the extreme, it's be chad or die

going back decades or maybe even 100s or years, things were different (worse in many aspects), but men still had their place (value) in society, a lot less gynocentric (even tho women still were privileged)
women overtook men in college enrollment in the 1980

nowdays everything is turned up against the average man to the extreme, women hate him & the entire male gender, less chance to get married, gets fucked in courts

 

[AustrianMogger]

Imagine being born in communist Russia with zero freedom and being thrown into WW2 where there was an 80% chance you would get blown to pieces

Dude not everything was russia. If you were born in 1890 and lived in gb, austria or germany you would have had a good live. War only started when you were 24 so you could probably be an office and not die in the trech.

 

[Occultcel]

"Muh technology", what has technology accomplished aside from making people low IQ bots with no souls and miserable psyches?

I would rather live back then - not in the middle ages - have a family and a community and live a simple life than shitpost on looksmax and consume brainrot online to pass the time

Science, medicine, people getting lifted out of poverty, lengthened lifespan, more upward economic mobility

 

[AustrianMogger]

Imagine being born in communist Russia with zero freedom and being thrown into WW2 where there was an 80% chance you would get blown to pieces

Also 1980s peak

 

[ihatereddit]

I'd die in infancy like a true subhuman

 

[Occultcel]

Dude not everything was russia. If you were born in 1890 and lived in gb, austria or germany you would have had a good live. War only started when you were 24 so you could probably be an office and not die in the trech.

True, but that’s very situational. The average person today lives a lot better than the average person 80+ years ago

 

[AustrianMogger]

True, but that’s very situational. The average person today lives a lot better than the average person 80+ years ago

Relative if you said 200 years maybe but 80 years would be latev1940s and early 1950s. People born then could expierence great things

 

[Travesty]

Science, medicine, people getting lifted out of poverty, lengthened lifespan, more upward economic mobility

Medicine? Aside from surgery, the medical community is nothing but a big fail. Zero cures - intentional - and exploiting people using lifelong treatments and vaccines with horrible side effects. Also more people nowadays are poor and starving than any other time throughout history, but you're too privileged to even know about it

Lengthened lifespan is a myth, we just have way lower infant mortality nowadays. The economy is also shittiest it's ever been in most of the world and even in the west it's getting worse year by year

 

[Occultcel]

Medicine? Aside from surgery, the medical community is nothing but a big fail. Zero cures - intentional - and exploiting people using lifelong treatments and vaccines with horrible side effects. Also more people nowadays are poor and starving than any other time throughout history, but you're too privileged to even know about it

Lengthened lifespan is a myth, we just have way lower infant mortality nowadays. The economy is also shittiest it's ever been in most of the world and even in the west it's getting worse year by year

There are so many disease that would’ve been a death sentence back then that are curable today

 

[Latinus]

Because people love to romantize the past, and Incels are no exception.

They saw some movie/clip from the past periods they idealize and act like the average joe lived like a king back then, when they would mostly be a peasant with no internet to cope.

Most people on these forums are teenagers that don't know anything about life.

 

[Darkeningstar]

Technically it's true, now it's better, but the post-modern effects are deadly on people's psyches.