People often find it easy to look down on the people/culture of today’s world while idealizing the past. The truth is Kuruharan is correct, the human race has really changed very little since the dawn of time. Very few people have ever been interested in studying history, even their own. Anyone who has actually studied history in any depth will realize that the past isn’t all that the romantics make it out to be. The great majority of people are, and have always been shallow, greedy, ignorant, and capricious. People don't learn, they never have, and they probably never will.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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