I will never tire of repeating that progress is not inevitable, because there is an irrational and childish corner within us determined to believe that life always improves. But not. Achievements are lost, knowledge is forgotten, societies make mistakes. If you stay very quiet, you may be able to hear the sound of civilizations collapsing in the distance. I’ll give you an example: in the 6th century BC, the Pythagoreans already knew that the Earth was a globe that rotated with other planets around a central fire; But 1,300 years later, the most important sage of his time, Isidore of Seville, believed in a flat Earth within a spherical sky. I mean we can lose everything. But all.
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