I read somewhere that human beings are genetically predis...

I read somewhere that human beings are genetically predisposed to record history.

We believe it will prevent us from doing stupid things in the future.

But even though we dutifully archived elaborate records of everything we’ve ever done, we also managed to keep on doing dumber and dumber shit.

~ Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith (Dutton 2014) 

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