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| Emperor Marcus Aurelius |
Human
beings have an irresistible tendency to blame others for our misfortunes and
our mistakes. In fact, this
is a symptom of low maturity, very clear in children, who when they are caught
red-handed doing something they shouldn’t, they always try to justify
themselves by blaming someone else. But the trend is so widespread that it
applies not just to children, but to most human beings.
In the
particular case of pandemics, this is seen quite clearly. Epidemic diseases were almost unknown before
the invention of cities, which took place some 10,000 years ago. But for a
pandemic to be possible (an epidemic affecting a considerable part of the
world), the world had to wait until there were great empires, with many
internal and external commercial relations.
