I love the Twain quote but I’m also a fan of this contemporary parallel observation; the number one thing you learn by studying history is that humans never learn a goddamn thing from history
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There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.
"If we could perceive time as it truly was, what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?"
Ouch.
Lemmy comments like to rhyme.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I think that was from Mark Twain.
Time is a flat circle.
doomed. doomed i tellya
You don't even know what it means to be a trapper!
Having just come out of a Global pandemic
Ending the decade with a global depression.
Patriarchy yet lives, and so time remains still
"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
So say we all
SO SAY WE ALL!
By your comm... I mean so say we all.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
yeah, the very same conflicts and tensions we had in the world back then are still here now...
It's like poetry
I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."
Where is this from?
First season of True Detective.
One of the best shows ever, very dark and brutal at points.
In fact, it seems like nothing has changed!
Not true, we also have climate change now
And nuclear weapons!
nobody changed anything, so why should have anything changed? development does not appear by pure wish or magic, nor by letting time passing by, people have to do it, or it just doesn't get done.
History likes to ryhme.
Those who know history are doomed to repeat it with those who don't.
The only thing we learn from history ... is that we don't learn anything from history
Robert Evans?
We got great things coming in the 30s...
It's not just good, it's great depression. -Just a Thought - Gnarls Barkley
Remember when they called it the great war as if it'll be the only one? Good times.
2039 is gonna be lit.
probably literally