Yes, there are some elements which are the same, but the overall experience is still different enough that the peasant would have been literally incapable of imagining the modern urbanite’s life.
I think the reverse is also true- modern Western societies are so individualistic that I imagine most moderns can’t imagine what it was like to be in some of the communities or hierarchies of the past.
I think the reverse is also true- modern Western societies are so individualistic that I imagine most moderns can’t imagine what it was like to be in some of the communities or hierarchies of the past.
Agreed.