One of my favorite things is studying history to understand what has and hasn't changed across the millennia. I'm equally interested in how and why we've evolved as I am in how and why we haven't.
Empires have risen and fallen. Technology has accelerated and continues to integrate its way further and further into our daily lives. Laws have evolved and improved, paving the way for societies to do the same. Awareness has expanded, education sharpened, and knowledge broadcasted to nearly every corner and crevice of the planet.
Human nature, however, has not changed by a single degree across all of human history.
Context changes. Rulers change. Expectations change. Rules change. Laws change. Society changes. Culture changes. Technology changes.
Human nature remains unaffected by history's contributions to our evolution and improvement.
We all work within the same human nature patterns of desire, fear, impulse, greed, pleasure, and pain as the archaic societies we study and the "good old days" we remember.
To study history is to examine ourselves. In that effort, appreciate how little we've changed in the context of how much has changed around us.
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