:blob_cookie: I meant the American independence war, to be exact. Washington said a lot of unnice things about his unpatriotic fellow Americans who valued money over country.
:blob_cookie: It was a constant complaint during the independence war that the farmers were preferentially selling to the British forces cuz they hard currency and not the jellyfish like dollars. Their lack of patriotism was continiously bemoaned.
:meowsip: The description feels ... ahistorical. Many different periods clashing.
As for the rest, it would be an error to assume that technological progress is naturally inevitable.
:meowsip: Now, see that is exactly my point, you can be killed in an elevator, die in airplane, die from being electrocuted, die while climbing, etc. The cases are admittedly rare, but the possibilities are endless.
:meowsip: No, modernity has much more danger sources. Our modes of transportation and the machinery involved massive amount of forces. You can cut yourself with a chainsaw. You can die in a car accident. That was certainly not the case back then. Killing someone in a horse cart accident is way...