Seamaiden
Well-Known Member
If you're interested and of a mind, may I suggest that you read Carnage and Culture, Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, by Victor Davis Hanson? In this book he outlines the roots of "Western thought" in ancient Greece and how that type of thought process has led to the superpowers of the world that we have now, which are decidedly predominantly western, along with how those that were Eastern in (thought and) origin had to ultimately either adopt western ideals (not ideology, the ancient Greeks were not Christians by any stretch) in order to find societal success or fail utterly.Basic biology dictates that living creatures eat, breath/(and/or whatever type of respiration is necessary to sustain life), and replicate their species. Human beings fall outside that realm given their intelligence and knowledge that what they do can affect every other living creature on this planet. If you maintain, that because a document written 100's or even thousands of years ago supercedes anything new we develop in these modern times, I just don't know how you can justify that. I am sure the founding fathers of the United States never dreamed of leaving the Earth or they would have included some text about colonizing other planets or space travel. You adapt to new changes in the environment,or you die off. Personally, I think I'll keep on living and adapt to changes as needed to sustain life whatever that may be.
If you do read this I think you will come to a better understanding of how such documents as we've been discussing are "classics", in that their real meanings and purpose go far deeper than what something as malleable as technology can affect, or even SHOULD affect. Not to mention the fact that we are all, after all, still just as human as we were 10,000 years ago. And that a free man now is very much the same as a free man was 200 years ago, even if his particular circumstances have changed.