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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (95966)	10/28/2012 7:40:05 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218847

What we call philosophers were just men with higher intelligence in the middle of ordinary people trying to make a living or just barely surviving They weere called philosophers because they could see issues that the ordinary people were blind to. History does not record the lives of (Greek) ordinary people. I had only see this record as a skeleton of a person was found a few years back and the scientists investigating the bones of this man who lived in the same age of the great philosophers saw in the bones how tough life was. Unrelated to the skeleton discovery my opinion is: The ordinary people of the past had two factors going against them: Lack of proper nourishment The environment they lived within. Lack of food for the mother gave birth to less intelligent babies, who in their turns grew up undernourished and lived among stupid people. As TJ says; the only weapon they had was revolution. Then religions made sure the poor and dispossesed did not rise. See Iran today as a modern example.