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The Last Age | What the Ancients Feared Most
Ancient writers believed every civilization passes through a final stage — not marked by catastrophe, but by forgetting wisdom. From Hesiod’s Age of Iron to the Indian Kali Yuga and Plato’s political warnings, the same fear appears: when restraint fades and memory is lost, societies hollow out from within. This episode explores what the ancients…
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You Were Trained to Forget Yourself | An Ancient Warning
Ancient thinkers warned that forgetting yourself was not a failure of intelligence, but a consequence of training attention outward. From Plato and Aristotle to the Upanishads and Stoic philosophy, the same insight appears: when identity is shaped by comparison and distraction, inner awareness fades. In this episode, we explore how the ancients understood forgetting —…