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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: TomSea on December 12, 2019, 03:36:02 am
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2 months old, I saw someone took note of this editorial, I thought I'd post:
How We Pale to Previous Generations
By Victor Davis Hanson
October 10, 2019 6:30 AM
A distant generation created; we mostly delay, idle, and gripe.
Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks.
Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers’ monumental palaces that were still standing around. As illiterates, they were curious about occasional clay tablets they plowed up in their fields with incomprehensible ancient Linear B inscriptions.
We of the 21st century are beginning to look back at our own lost epic times and wonder about these now-nameless giants who left behind monuments that we cannot replicate, but instead merely use or even mock.
Read more at: National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/members-of-previous-generation-now-seem-like-giants/)
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Pale is much to kind a descriptive.
Serious people who read/reflect, grasp that moderns are a
laughable embarrassment when compared to the Ancients,
and only exceed them in having "more stuff"; WOW!!!
In fact, were it not for them, we'ed still be in caves!!!