The more classics you read, whether Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, the more you realize humans learn almost nothing--other than in cumulative fields like science and technology--and that most of history is tiresome repetition.
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Humans are terminally optimistic, we always think the answer is over the next hill when reality is it was over the hills we already climbed.
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Oops! You have left out the aspect called freedom: to know x as 'right' and decide to do y. Remove freedom and history could become 'right-oriented' and of course inhuman
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Not knowing how spectacularly you can fail is often a key ingredient in success.
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So the 18 yo would get so depressed he'd kill himself? Sold. Let's do this for everyone.
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