An exclusive reliance on current data would needlessly handicap our efforts. "Understanding the operations of people and societies is difficult, though a number of disciplines make the attempt. "In the first place, history offers a storehouse of information about how people and societies behave," Stearns wrote. Stearns, a professor at George Mason University, where he had been provost for 14 years, said the reason is quite simple: there's much to learn from the bygone days. After all, people live in the present, they plan for and worry about the future, but history is the study of the past. One might think that such talks are of little importance. The 70's were more sexually liberal than the 80's, and you would have to be dumber than a bag of sh*t to not see how much we're backsliding on human rights right now, especially women's rights - and yet people still overwhelmingly cling to the delusion that we're constantly marching ever and ever forward on all of these issues, each day more progressive than the last. Hell, even in living memory none of these claims are accurate.
#Have a nice life anno domini skin#
Women in Medieval Europe had more rights than women in 18th century Europe, our concept of racial superiority based on skin color would have come off as insane in many other eras, and I want to tear my hair out every time I hear someone claiming that it would have been scandalous to show an ankle in 19th century Europe. And Desmond Lives.That the further back in time you go the more sexually suppressed everything was or the more racist everyone was or the more misogynistic everyone was - basically any perception that the entirety of history can be charted as a steady progression.
But does that make him a Mentor? Maybe not, but some pesky ancestral voices inside his head are more than willing to help him figure it out. The problem is that they need a leader, and Desmond's the only one with any modern day experience. They may not be mainstream Assassins, but they are Assassins all the same. The Brotherhood are the only family any of them have. It is possible to hide in a digital world through skill and precision. The innocent are blind to the Templar plan. With Abstergo around, who was truly innocent? With security cameras at every stoplight, where could one hide? What Brotherhood? All anyone had ever done was betray him.īut after escaping an Abstergo Animus project in Madrid in 2016, those three tenets are more important than ever.Ĭut off from the Brotherhood, Desmond must make do with his own team of Animus-trained Assassins and he finally understands. If one were to say, back in 2012, that these three Tenets of the Assassin's Creed were absolute, Desmond would have laughed. Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent. CANON-COMPLIANT THROUGH AC: ODYSSEY (2019).Rated Mature for Violence and Clay's death ONLY.