Well since I'm so used to the technology we have available today, I'm not in the position to say it isn't beneficial. I mean, it's hard enough going a few hours without electricity let alone every other modern day leisure.

 

 

 

But then again, when I compare my life to a tribal one it seems like they have less stress to deal with. They don't have to worry about waking up every morning when the gadget on your dresser says a specific number, driving a huge vehicle through dangerous traffic and having to follow the road laws, working at your job/school and staying within the lines of social etiquette, withdrawing your earnings from a bank and remembering all those numbers and cards, shopping at maze-like stores to find food for your family... all just to get by. Now, I will say that we are lucky to have medicine, education, and the likes but when you think about just happiness alone those tribal people probably have it better than we do.

I don't see how you could say the industrial revolution was bad . . . Unless you're Amish. It was a great leap for society and while it brought new problems with it it put an end to old ones, and as a whole I think we're better off. It was inevitable anyway.

 

 

 

That's exactly what i wanted to say

 

 

 

Can you read minds? :o

best thing to happen ever. i wish there would be a mini industrial revolution around where i live soon.

Well since I'm so used to the technology we have available today, I'm not in the position to say it isn't beneficial. I mean, it's hard enough going a few hours without electricity let alone every other modern day leisure.

 

 

 

But then again, when I compare my life to a tribal one it seems like they have less stress to deal with. They don't have to worry about waking up every morning when the gadget on your dresser says a specific number, driving a huge vehicle through dangerous traffic and having to follow the road laws, working at your job/school and staying within the lines of social etiquette, withdrawing your earnings from a bank and remembering all those numbers and cards, shopping at maze-like stores to find food for your family... all just to get by. Now, I will say that we are lucky to have medicine, education, and the likes but when you think about just happiness alone those tribal people probably have it better than we do.

 

 

 

It's not like tribal people didn't have their own problems, too. Finding food, finding shelter, illness and injury being just some of them. The average life expectancy in pre-historic times was under 30. Even in ancient Roman culture, it was under 30. [1]

 

 

 

I don't really know who had more stress, but one things for sure, we both had different things to worry about. I think a perspective check would make many of our stresses seem petty and rather inconsequential. I'd definitely live post the industrial revolution, myself.

I don't really know who had more stress, but one things for sure, we both had different things to worry about. I think a perspective check would make many of our stresses seem petty and rather inconsequential. I'd definitely live post the industrial revolution, myself.

 

 

 

Well, at least back then they didn't have the drama that the internet and media cause. Now most of us always have a method of communication (phone, texting, internet) so we are dealing with more people. I think less stimuli in your life creates less stress.

 

 

 

Also, the Romans lived to be about 30 but I don't see how their life expectancy would add any stress to their lives. If you are talking about getting diseases and injuries left and right then I guess you're right since that does count as stimuli. I don't see life expectancy as something to stress about though.

On the large scale, beneficial. And very much inevitable.

On the large scale, beneficial. And very much inevitable.

 

 

 

Yup , exept for the developing countries (do you call it like that? I mean like the countries in Afrika for example , where the population still a farmer is )

I don't really know who had more stress, but one things for sure, we both had different things to worry about. I think a perspective check would make many of our stresses seem petty and rather inconsequential. I'd definitely live post the industrial revolution, myself.

 

 

 

Well, at least back then they didn't have the drama that the internet and media cause. Now most of us always have a method of communication (phone, texting, internet) so we are dealing with more people. I think less stimuli in your life creates less stress.

 

 

 

Also, the Romans lived to be about 30 but I don't see how their life expectancy would add any stress to their lives. If you are talking about getting diseases and injuries left and right then I guess you're right since that does count as stimuli. I don't see life expectancy as something to stress about though.

 

 

 

They lived shorted lives, hence they probably weren't all that healthy compared to us, didn't get enough food, etc. That would have made them more susceptible to disease, too.

 

 

 

Also, stimuli = stress is a pretty shallow correlation. People don't come out of a movie feeling stressed. I wouldn't say that the media or the internet causes that much stress in peoples lives, either. Not in mine, anyway. If I don't like what I'm seeing, I just turn it off, so it's quite comforting knowing I can stop any potential unpleasantness instantly like that.

 

 

 

One of the things that I think causes the most stress these days is working too much. Unfortunately for some people, it's absolutely necessary just to keep their heads above water.

Also, stimuli = stress is a pretty shallow correlation.

 

 

 

Why? Everything has potential problems attached to them. Of course there are even some things that are stimuli and reduce your stress - but my point was that the more complex your life is, the more stressed out you will probably be.

Also, stimuli = stress is a pretty shallow correlation.

 

 

 

Why? Everything has potential problems attached to them. Of course there are even some things that are stimuli and reduce your stress - but my point was that the more complex your life is, the more stressed out you will probably be.

 

 

 

I'd say that's part of it, but it's also how easy those stimuli are to deal with. There's nothing stressful about a movie because it's not going to effect you in a negative way. There is something stressful about being overworked because you lose sleep and energy. On it's own, I don't think how complicated your life is really means anything as far as stress goes.

Having to worry about getting in the theater on time, sneaking food in, keeping your baby quiet. Of course those are all small scale but I think you get the point. It's just the little every day things that make us bicker.

 

 

 

Stress - A physiologic reaction by an organism to an uncomfortable or unfamiliar physical or psychological stimulus. Biological changes result from stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, including a heightened state of alertness, anxiety, increased heart rate, and sweating.

 

 

 

The more stimuli you are exposed to, the higher your chance of experiencing stress is.