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It's always good to remember that we are not so different from our ancestors. For example, we are very close in time to the people who held the Salem witch tria
by tyleo 5y ago
It's always good to remember that we are not so different from our ancestors. For example, we are very close in time to the people who held the Salem witch trials. What would those same people have done with a high-powered tool that let them find and witch hunt anyone, anywhere on the planet with many more people involved?
- laurent92 5y agoI’m always surprised to see that scriptures from 2000 years ago are intelligible for us and do not sound dumb or ultra-simplistic. Similarly, the relationships described in those books are very similar to today’s times. On another topic, when studying historic documents of feminism, I’ve noticed there were the same opposition (and arguments) one century ago and today. Despite having to recognize the immense _scientific_ progress, the _social_ progress is always touted as immense but I rather have the impression that humans remain as flawed as they were 2000 years ago.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoIt turns out that the timescales to develop civilization and then to evolve to fit in it work on different orders of magnitude.
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