A useful reminder:
The tenants of modern trailer parks live in more luxury than early Sumerian aristocrats, whose mansions were reed huts with dirt floors. The motor scooters of unemployed college students travel faster than the horses of medieval lords. Civil War generals communicated by courier, but now every private has a mobile phone. Progress impoverishes the past. Complaints feel childish when you think of your ancestors. I grumble when my air conditioning breaks in summer, but in ancient Egypt even Pharaohs had to sweat.
The Dish 