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RE: Do we learn from our mistakes? Or do we just repeat.
Yes and no. Mostly yes. We are far more advanced technologically than we were when Socrates was living. Has human nature changed much since then? In some parts of the world, yes. Europe and the United States are not beset by marauding hoards that rape and pillage. On the other hand, the pillaging takes other forms, such as the advent of confiscatory governments in these regions.
Well yes there is technology, but there has also been lost technology.
Yes we don't have marauding hoards, but that is as long as you have paid protection and policing; meaning past societies who were economically well off did not allow marauding hoards into their country and had some expectation of law-and order. In other words we could lose our law-and-order very quickly if we had an economic collapse. Rinse-Repeat ? Just my thoughts on your comment. Thank you for commenting.