Condemned to Repeat What Again?
Imagine you have amnesia and can’t remember a single historical event. You have to make all of your decisions without any knowledge of what may or may not have happened in similar situations in the past. There is no context. Every situation is subject to mistakes that have already been made. Now you know how it feels to be an average human being in the 2020s.
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I was wanting to write on my blog, something to the effect of: “if politicos had longer memories, then we wouldn’t have politicos.” But you did a much better job
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I like yours. Much more direct and no less true.
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Brilliant and ominously hilarious
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Thanks a lot, Ananda. It’s so disturbing, right?
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I think all the original twists in the story of mankind are long exhausted… We are now in a loopy cycle of lather, rinse, repeat
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Couldn’t agree more.
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I think we could do better as a society if we knew more of history.
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For sure! But we don’t even heed the little we do know.
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Context is everything!
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It’s pretty important, right? Thanks for checking out the post.
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