> 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 lo

> 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