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Why Don't We Learn from History?: A reflection on the past and present
A reflection on the past and present
More than 2000 years ago, the Greek historian Polybius mused that the best way to navigate current society’s problems was to, quote, “recall the catastrophes of others.” Yet, millennia later, people still ignore the lessons of the past.
The question is, why? To begin answering, we need to unpack the complex relationship we humans have with history and with historical thought.
These blinks draw on the succinct musings of military historian B. H. Liddell Hart to examine how we all use – and misuse – our knowledge about historical events. In other words, they explore how history helps us interpret the present and plan for the future. You’ll learn why making sense of past events is so difficult, how the historical record gets warped and distorted, and why wars continue to plague humanity, even despite our best efforts to stop them.
More than 2000 years ago, the Greek historian Polybius mused that the best way to navigate current society’s problems was to, quote, “recall the catastrophes of others.” Yet, millennia later, people still ignore the lessons of the past.
The question is, why? To begin answering, we need to unpack the complex relationship we humans have with history and with historical thought.
These blinks draw on the succinct musings of military historian B. H. Liddell Hart to examine how we all use – and misuse – our knowledge about historical events. In other words, they explore how history helps us interpret the present and plan for the future. You’ll learn why making sense of past events is so difficult, how the historical record gets warped and distorted, and why wars continue to plague humanity, even despite our best efforts to stop them.
15 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2021
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