[throwaways885]

I guarantee you that most people back then would've been hunting, farming, building huts or rearing children. There is no model of the past where this level of isolation was even maintainable. People simply depend on each other to live.

All that changed is that we've outsourced that direct dependence with indirect dependencies, like supermarkets.

[smorgusofborg]

Just before the crisis I was watching a documentary on a tribe of herdsmen that come together once a year to find mates.. They have probably been doing that longer than Rome has existed. The idea that the modern world is very much like our environment during our evolution is delusional. An effect of being joined to the western Europeans for colonized people was significant deaths from diseases that can only exist in abnormal densities of people.

[antihipocrat]

You're now defending a position that is contrary to the ideas expressed in your original post.

Which would be completely ok, except you never explained how your position has changed nor what it is you are now arguing against.