I noticed a bias for recency that a lot of people share, or take for granted (sometimes myself). I was surprised to see that this idea, that history is better a

I noticed a bias for recency that a lot of people share, or take for granted (sometimes myself). I was surprised to see that this idea, that history is better and better with time, goes back to Aristotle. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/progress/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/progress/