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In the future we will be seen as prophets. The reality is that we simply paid attention and didn’t try excusing what was obvious to any who cared to look.
Of course, no one loves a prophet.
They want to be Caesar telling the Plebs what do and so forth.
Julius Caesar would rather have been Chief among a Tribe Wearing Goat Skins and Scalping people for Giggles than a mere Citizen in one of the Advanced Civilizations of it's time.
Plutarch-Having received the government of Farther Spain after his prætorship, he came to a little town in passing the Alps; and his friends, by way of mirth, took occasion to say, “Can there here be any disputes for offices, any contentions for precedency, or such envy and ambition as we see among the great?” To which Cæsar answered, with great seriousness, “I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”