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> We must be very careful when we think that we have more time or have seen more things or are more advanced than ancient civilization We have definitely seen

> We must be very careful when we think that we have more time or have seen more things or are more advanced than ancient civilization We have definitely seen more things. I think that is beyond questioning. Being more advanced is questionable, especially because that term means something different for any human. But the point is that wisdom from that time can not IMO be translated verbatim to current time - you can peak pieces of it but not rely on it as truth 100%. Both life expectations and habits and priorities are totally different now that makes any wisdom arised from such system distant and foggy.

romanoderoma 6y ago
> We have definitely seen more things. I think that is beyond questioning. The average human has seen more of contemporary things but will never see what we lost, on average I will say the quantity is the same, they are simply different things > wisdom from that time can not IMO be translated verbatim to current time Wisdom of that time could not be translated verbatim not even when they were fresh ideas That kind of wisdom was acknowledged only among a marginal fraction of the population that had the instruments to understand it and argue about it Let alone applying it, you had to be someone in complete control of their lives, a thing that was extremely rare We are talking about less than 1% of the population, something around one every ten thousands But probably even less that that It has more chances of being popular today than at the time it was formulated