Modern society may have issues, but it as bad as it is usually portrayed. 10,000 years ago, you would live in a tribe. If you were not popular among your tribe, it is likely you would be either exiled and forced to live in solitude and die during winter or be constantly subject to violence. 2,000 years ago, you would live only to work in a farm or be in a state of perpetual war. To make things worse, literacy rate wa…
Could you stop make your point using such widely false and over generalized statement ?
The point of people who think that our society is de-humanized is that when your society was forcing you to work in a farm or to go to war, you didn't have the free will to be alone. You were indeed "forced" to engage in activity involving using your body to do meaningful work (farming), do things with your peers (war).