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>So I don't think it's really that we're in a "digital age," it's just that we have a lot more explanations for things than the classicists did.

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I wouldn't argue with that. Maybe "hubris" really is a better explanation than all the pop psychology.

maybe the millenia old concept that's been culturally relevant enough to stay in our lexicon all that time is a better explanation than pop psychology, yeah.

for all the miracles of modern social science and statistics, the ancients' theories have a critical advantage over ours. they've had time for their hypotheses to be borne out.

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