As much as things seem to be focused on theory of political structure I think people do not understand that many things have effected humanity over their existence.
We would be kinda short sighted to not take many things into account such as where better seen in history. Things like lack of water natural disasters and so on. If you devalue these concepts of their actual nature then it holds less value in general.
Things like the printing press, tech, and manufacturing are also things that have greatly improved the quality of life of all the world. This where people are so much stuck in the here and now of their own conception rathe then the reality of events that show bright spots of humanity.