Would we all not be much better off learning more about the wisdom of the great, ancient sages of the East and West (Socrates, Confucius and many more)?
Regrettably, I am not very familiar with the sages of the Middle East.
What about sages of the southern hemisphere? Was their wisdom perhaps not as well preserved? Did we overlook it?
Learning more about the ancient sages would prevent so many ideologues and demagogues of our time to fail so miserably! Many more of them would easily be identified as quacks and be ridiculed!
Unfortunately, the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment did not kill superstition, quackery, extreme demagoguery and absurdities in our time (e.g. global warming/climate change)! Instead, without deeper knowledge of the sages we are condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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