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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
Given the breadth of history, it is you making the extraordinary claim that we're somehow living at the pinnacle of our understanding.
I have not been making that claim, I am simply pointing out the social and economic system created by cultural/political and intellectual elites two hundred years ago specifically via arguments about human nature.
If our understanding of human nature is better than a specific point in time 200 hundred years ago, that is not the same as saying now is the pinnacle.
However that claim is in no way as extra ordinary as you make it out to be.
Humanity is at the pinnacle of its understanding on so many things, why should human nature be any different?
We understand the "nature" of so many things better than ever before and tomorrow will bring a new pinnacle and so will the day after that.
Its completely on you to prove that claim is extra ordinary and that human nature is obscure to the forward march of human understanding that reveals new truths daily.
In general the understanding of human nature is magnitudes superior now than it was 200 hundred years ago, its not even remotely a debate in anyway and to suggest otherwise is simply absurd and ridiculous.
If you want to argue their are specific cultural elites from two hundred years ago that have led to the current understanding that is a completely different discussion to the one we have been having.