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>For me personally, the hard thing is reading the thoughts of Plato, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc. and then trying to understand how we had such amazing thinker
by JackFr 8y ago
>For me personally, the hard thing is reading the thoughts of Plato, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc. and then trying to understand how we had such amazing thinkers 2000 years ago and that we don't seem to have moved any further at all in the year 2018.
Seems like pretty good evidence that people are deeply flawed, sinful creatures.
- zanny 8y agoPeople are blank slates forged by the society around them. Nobody is inherently evil, not even a socio or psychopath. People are made evil, ignorant, anti-intellectual in the ways they come to interpret and interact with the world. Its more evidence that the collective societies we have built aren't anything worth revering yet, at least not the ones "on top" of global culture today.