And people say medievals are stupid, I used to agree with it until I got to see the stupidity is even more prevalent and worse than ever nowadays
The nice thing about learning history is, you read enough and you start to see that the only things that change are the names and technology. All the motivations and foibles, vices, and virtues that our leaders and decisionmakers have today are the same ones they had a century ago, two and a half-centuries ago, a millennium, two millennia, and even further back.
Oh sure, we happen to know more, (and there's something to be said for the benefits to intelligence decades of stable food supplies have given us) but the same things drive us as what drove our ancestors back in the middle ages. We aren't any more "Enlightened" today than they were.
We aren't any more "Enlightened" today than they were.
In my opinion, I think we are more unenlightened. The vanity and vindictiveness is all time high and are praised as virtue.
our leaders and decisionmakers have today are the same ones they had a century ago, two and a half-centuries ago, a millennium, two millennium
I'm not sure if I agree with this any more. At least the leaders in anglosphere all seem to be incompetent, out of their elements worst of all only serving their own interests.
The nice thing about learning history is, you read enough and you start to see that the only things that change are the names and technology. All the motivations and foibles, vices, and virtues that our leaders and decisionmakers have today are the same ones they had a century ago, two and a half-centuries ago, a millennium, two millennia, and even further back.
Oh sure, we happen to know more, (and there's something to be said for the benefits to intelligence decades of stable food supplies have given us) but the same things drive us as what drove our ancestors back in the middle ages. We aren't any more "Enlightened" today than they were.
In my opinion, I think we are more unenlightened. The vanity and vindictiveness is all time high and are praised as virtue.
I'm not sure if I agree with this any more. At least the leaders in anglosphere all seem to be incompetent, out of their elements worst of all only serving their own interests.