It's interesting. It's either an optimistic view or a pessimistic view. remember the concept of innocent childhood only really took off in the west in Victoria

It's interesting. It's either an optimistic view or a pessimistic view. remember the concept of innocent childhood only really took off in the west in Victorian times - think of how much changes in the last generation, the last century, the last 300 years But then compare the previous 2000 years. Would someone from Plato's era be that unrecognisable to someone from renaissance Florence? (or vice Versa) What will the next 200 years bring? What about the next 500?