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Originally Posted by peter12
It clearly doesn't progress at all. You can read about far more enlightened individuals, such as Socrates, Cicero,and Aristophanes, that lived over 2000 years ago.
Don't confuse ideological baffle-gab and technical prowess with "progress."
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But Peter there is always going to be a seperation between "Enlightened people" and mans inate and inbread more violent and bloody nature, something that as a species we're not going to overcome any time soon.
Our civilization thrives and progresses the most during periods of bloody conflict.
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