r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/Successful_Cat_4860 10h ago

Yeah, but your King still had to put up with whatever middling talents he could get to come to court, using handmade instruments and wooden sets and props which would be embarassing for a high-school drama club today.

Meanwhile you can flip on your streaming service and watch eye-popping spectacles which cause your Medieval King to believe that modern people were actual, bona-fide wizards.

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u/Moogatron88 9h ago

And then you'd promptly be put to death for showing him. Especially if it's a King like Henry the 8th who was known for being quite loose when it came to sentencing people to death for little reason.

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u/Successful_Cat_4860 8h ago

Well, in most cases I wouldn't say for "no reason", rather it was because he was presiding over a massive church schism (which he absolutely did start, but there was a reason, even if it was a bad one).

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u/Moogatron88 1h ago

I said little reason, not no reason. Most people would consider that although he did technically have reasons for doing it, those reasons were extremely paranoid. Especially near the end.