" Obviously books from the past can and do enlighten us about the present, and they don't literally have to talk about CNN to be clarifying about the nature of propaganda, but there are limits to what Plato can tell you about a world with 8 billion people in it." I wrote that in my first post. Nowhere do I suggest that the bed rock of the human condition obtains the contemporary. In almost literally every post I've made I refer to the value of classical knowledge and literature.