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I spent five hours studying the first book of "The Peloponnesian War." I think I sprained something in my brain.
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And so, even though men are always inclined, while they are engaged in a war, to judge the present one the greatest, but when it is over, regard ancient events with greater wonder. Yet this war will prove, for men who judge from actual facts, to have been more important than any war before. - Thuchydides Book I of "The History of the Peloponnesian War"


It's very weird when reading a history of a war that happened 2,500 years ago sounds so similar to the one that's happening now. Except with the cognitive dissonance where the two are simultaneously going on at the same time, because the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem very far away. And at the same time the never ending wars are going on, Athens is stressed to the breaking point.

Then I think of a scholar a thousand years from now, crouched over a dusty book or whatever information is stored on, reading about now. Will they too look up from their work, and see the parallels of the same actions that happened in Athens, in the US, unfolding outside their window?

I wonder what they'd think of us.

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