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R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8

Ancient Greece Declassified

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History Isn't Cyclical

We see history as a linear process while they see it as cyclical. We like to believe today that our society is making progress in every direction. When Polybius was writing in the 100 BC, the Mediterranean world had seen uninterrupted technological advances for 800 years. If Plato or Khaldun or any Chinese historian saw us today, they'd realize how wrong they were.

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