tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7289762831271297766..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: "My Era's Better Than Your Era": reported by Penny DolanMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-48438488199652583302015-12-17T16:58:11.179+00:002015-12-17T16:58:11.179+00:00True words, and yet there are people being kind to...True words, and yet there are people being kind to other people in every era. How do I know this? I just do, and there's no seasonal connection at all!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-22077063328158064422015-12-17T12:13:57.045+00:002015-12-17T12:13:57.045+00:00Human beings are/were too clever for their own goo...Human beings are/were too clever for their own good, no matter what the age.<br /><br />In this age of miracles, millions live miserable lives with very little benefit from any of the philosophy and science. And so it always was. Most people in the Viking Age were stay-at-home farmers, many enslaved, and the thrall women didn't benefit from the Viking Laws about their sex. Roman and Greek 'higher thought' didn't help the slaves and poor in their slums - nor did it help the poor in the 18th century rookeries.<br /><br />The best era will be when,as the old folk-tale says, people are simply 'kind to each other' and perhsps manage to make their governments do the same. - But the aims of you and I and, say, an arms manufacturer, are never going to be the same.<br /><br />Sorry, Penny - maybe some of your other commentators will be less Eeyore and more full of Christmas spirit!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com