History repeats itself until enough people get it and herd immunity to endemic bad ideas sets in.
For a few generations. Then new breakout, more repetitions.
So much redundancy. A word to the wise is sufficient, but a droning universe for the dumb is not enough.
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~50 year father-son cycles of immunization to violent radicalism are pretty well documented in Western history
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Because where men remember, they often do not learn. Men haul their rancor down generations, bequeathed father to daughter, mother to son, until—the causes beyond recollection—a grudge becomes a nationality, and a quarrel becomes a war. - Elizabeth Bear
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That sounded optimistic (too optimistic) at first. I should have known better.
Hyman Minsky: "Stability is destablizing". I doubt that is has to be that way, but it is, so maybe that's what we should focus on.
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