Everyone likes to recites Santayana's quote but I think the world would actually better off overall if fewer people knew history. The foreign policy of the US post 1945 would have been a lot more sane if no one had learned the bloody word "appeasement".
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Problem was that people took the wrong lessons and didn’t learn enough of it. Thus they built an incomplete picture.
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There is not two problems alike, that much is true. We don't study historical cases to apply them again, they're studied as gymnastics: to be wiser on all occasions
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Taking a resolution and executing it is done on the application of the great principles of leadership whose knowledge is apprehended by studying historical situations and analysing them, thinking why they succeeded or failed etc
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Vietnam was ackshully Korea, just that the Skull and Bones WW2 generation had made their way to the top and made it a dialectical war to crush the normies once and for all.
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