It is amazing that words uttered when years could still be written with two digits are a laser light exposing reality 2,000 years after the fact. It is a perfect example of Santayana's maxim that the past is repeated by those who can't remember (or read) it. None of us were in existence during the life of Seneca and most Americans are too incestuously nationalistic to put credence in the brilliance of anyone not born on US soil to European origin parents let alone read anything not originally written in English making them vulnerable to repeating mistakes others removed from the repertoire long, long ago.
