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History: The Cause of Repetitive Doom

George Santayana, in his book “Reason and Common Sense”, proffered that:

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”

A powerful thought frequently applied (and misquoted) as filler for the protagonist and for this reason I’ve often wondered if its meaning, and the causal force that lies behind it, are truly understood. Whatever the case it seems most likely that the real condemnation is not that humans forget history but more so that it is the adaptation to a selectively crafted version of history that is the greatest danger of all.

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