As someone once pontificated , “People who reminisce about the good old days have both a good imagination and a bad memory.”
I am actually glad to be living in the 21st century. When I read a quote in The Agamemnon by Aeschylus I found one more reason why:
“For the heart of man is hardened by infatuation,
A faulty advisor, the first link of sorrow.”
When I read that I thought, “Wow, that’s so true. People will do really stupid, pain-causing things when they are mindlessly infatuated with someone.”
But alas, you caught me eisegeting again.
The quote refers to Agamemnon’s gruesome sacrifice of his daughter before the infamous, bloody, 10-year Trojan war (yes, the one with the horse).
Far from having a crush on someone, Agamemnon's infatuation was with his family’s honor in war.
Now…I’ve been afraid before. But I have never had to be afraid that my dad was going to sacrifice one of my sisters so that the company would have a good year.
So I guess we can feel pretty good about ourselves in our enlightened age…apart from our ongoing holocaust of 47 million innocents, and a few other moral trifles.