There is a delightful programmer on Radio 4 where they take an issue of today and set it side-by-side with a similar issue from centuries ago. It is entitled The Long View but what it shows is that while society morphs from one generation to another the problems faced by the human population rarely change.
The language and even the answers may have a different character but fundamentally humans beings have not changed what they revolt over and what they find annoying for 200 hundred thousand years.
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