There Are A Lot Of Crazy People About

There are people alive today who think we live in the worst possible times.

Those people are ignorant.

I do not mean "ignorant" in an insulting manner, I mean ignorant in a they-just-don't-know manner.

You know what was common a thousand years ago? 

The world was ruled by titled aristocrats, from the heavily walled castles of Europe to the thatched huts of Africa. These aristocrats may have been referred to by different titles, but they were aristocrats nonetheless.

And you know what, in essence, an aristocrat was? 

They were people who ruled by force. That's it, that's the beginning and the end of the definition of aristocrat. They had the might, so they had the right. Cross them and die.

Basically, a thousand years ago, everyone who wasn't an aristocrat...was a slave.

It didn't matter if you were black, white, brown, yellow or red...a thousand years ago, if you were not an aristocrat, you were a slave.

Think about that. On every single continent on this planet, in every single country/kingdom, the vast majority of the populace were enslaved.

There are people alive today who believe we are all slaves in one way or another - slaves to the grindstone, slaves to the wage, slaves to the ruling class, etc., but that is just bullshit hyperbole used by people to exaggerate ones discontent with the current state of one's life. 

A thousand years ago, it was real slavery, as in the King, or Duke, or Chief, etc., gets to decide every single day whether or not you get to live in a certain area, or work a certain job, or even live to see another day.

That's abject slavery, and all but the ruling class in every land throughout the world, lived under those conditions.

Plus, no indoor plumbing.