> and has consistently answered wrong "Consistently" is too strong a word. We have ended up where we are today, but let's not pretend societies didn't explore

> and has consistently answered wrong "Consistently" is too strong a word. We have ended up where we are today, but let's not pretend societies didn't explore a lot of dead ends along the way. Sometimes very destructive dead ends, with many dead. Nor can we state that today is the "best of all possible worlds", and that we wouldn't have ended up somewhere better had the advice of elders been heeded more often. This is a case of survivorship bias.