Our progressive generation stumbling on same sorry mistakes

The illusion of progress. Nothing like it.

This illusion sustains each generation in the belief that it has evolved past the previous generation which, if not precisely knocking its finger knuckles off the floor as it walked, was pretty Neanderthal.

Not their fault, of course. They didn’t live in a global village criss-crossed with information highways. They were comforted and confined by old beliefs, hampered and hounded by churchmen telling them what to do and what not to do. Aren’t we blessed not to have lived back then?