We Have Always Lived with Fearmongers

But we always seem to forget this fact, too

One of the cruellest parts of ageing must surely be how many cycles of ignorance we’re compelled to live through, without being able to bring past experience to bear meaningfully on the present.

Oh, sure, our technologies might change, and material signs all around us might readily attest to species-wide improvements in worldly knowledge…

But individual h…