Them Over There

While Heinlein was correct that those who don’t know history have no past and no future, knowing history is not enough. In some cases, it might be worse.

While travel is generally believed to broaden the mind, travel by itself is not sufficient, or even particularly helpful, depending on what you’re doing.

Both of the recommendations are designed to give you patterns of what could happen that you haven’t lived through; and patterns of how people live who aren’t you.

The problem is t...