@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 months 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-up160arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up160arrow-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.com@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@ynazumalinkEnglish-2•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months 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