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The thesis is that civilizations went from primitive, to more sophisticated, back to primitive.

It's easy to believe. Just look at today's young people in the USA after 50 years of communist stupefying public schools.

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Progressives actually insist on “progressive”, astonishingly. A friend I yhave known since Med School 35 years ago blithely mentioned to me long ago, like it was accepted dogma, “things just get better with each generation.” If reality doesn’t fit that message it ain’t reality. Look at the data, though. Somebody, long ago, was doing things we would struggle with today.