What's interesting is we don't look back on all people evenly, nor do we esteem people less who lived farther back in time. For example, we tend to esteem the G

What's interesting is we don't look back on all people evenly, nor do we esteem people less who lived farther back in time. For example, we tend to esteem the Greeks and Romans more than the Medieval Europeans. The author has a chip on his shoulder because we don't regard all eras equally.