Don't you hate it when people reply to their own messages?
While we're on the topic of not-learning-from-history,
consider this, from Hegel:
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically
commended to the teaching which experience offers in history.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and
governments never have learned anything from history, or acted
on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such
peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so
strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by
considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
-- The Philosophy of History, vol. 10, p. 6 (1899)
History does not repeat itself, people do.
Dave
PS: History does not repeat itself, people do.
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