We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[David Horn]

(03-02-2021, 04:30 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:

(02-28-2021, 11:45 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "Most of us are WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic." Maybe that "I" should be changed to "Information-Aged"? Industry is getting to be old hat now. In most western countries, the remains of industry are all around and are now reminders of an obsolete and abandoned yesterday. That's how it always appears in Rick Steves' trips to Europe, for example.

Internet-connected would be more appropriate than Mr Butler's Star Trek cruft.

Also, without industry (mostly Chinese) there wouldn't be any Millennial iPhones.

That's a way-to-literal reading of the term "Industrialized". In this context, it refers to the extent that modernity is achievable within society. Without an industrial base, there can be no version of modernity we're accustom to living within.  Yes, the Information age is moving the bar again, but so far, we're still more likely to feel aggrieved if we have no running water than we are when the Internet is down.