yes, 100%.

and for fuck's sake let's once and for all stop imagining we're in any sense modern, we are just now. this is the neverending story of human life on earth. power and resources, who has 'em, who wants 'em; who gets to dole them out as patronage. that's it. and after the renaissance no one has had anything profound to say about it. we don't learn. we don't get smarter. collectively, i mean, of course. i got a lot smarter over the course of my life and i bet a lot of people individually did too. but it don't do the whole of us no good.