Ancient people had a lot of wisdom
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I've spent a lot of time studying ancient Greece and Rome. The more I've learned about them the more I realized they had more wisdom than us in a lot of ways but also lacked wisdom just like us in a lot of ways. The similarities between us and the ancients is unmistakable though. We just have different technology. Anyone who thinks humanity has "evolved" or "progressed" compared to the past is sorely mistaken. We're exactly the same. All our problems are exactly the same.
“In every time, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.”----Legend of the Galactic heroes opening.
Legend of the Galactic heroes anime was pretty much a story about how our problems are cyclical.
Corrupt "democracies," arrogant monarchies, conniving "economists," cultural degeneracy...
Yeah, pretty much.
conniving merchants and cultists that manipulate all sides behind the scenes
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Evolution is a very slow process, especially in long lived species with single offspring like us.
Very little is capable of changing about humans except for the environment we find ourselves in.
The human mind hasn't changed much. Our societies have changed massively. We can reach any point on the globe in less than 24 hours. We have tons of new problems the Greeks couldn't even imagine.
I kind of phrased this badly. We probably agree in the end. I'm just trying to say that any problem we have involving humans has as one of its factors impacting the dynamic of the problem as being "human nature" is the same.
The ancients didn't have the problem of determining what the correct speed limit is in a neighborhood but the ancients did have people who would have believed putting the speed limit low enough to maximize government revenue is ideal, people that would have wanted to minimize accidents, people that would have wanted to minimize road traffic noise because they live near where the speed limit is being place, people who believe the limits should balance the maximization of the flow of traffic while minimizing and people injured through accidents, people who wanted limits to minimize road maintenance and people against speed limits altogether.
All the human elements involved between different people's trying to maximize their interests and perspectives regarding the problem of speed limits in modernity are the same human elements that existed for the ancients.
So yes, the exact nature of our problems differ than the ancients but the human component of all these problems has stayed the same.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.