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guest_
· 2 years ago
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Studying history is important. Learning from past mistakes is important. However- it takes a certain type of mindset and thinking to do this. We can’t paint too broad a stroke when looking to history- for example, when we look at the League of Nations or countless other councils of “powers” and nations in history- all have ultimately ended. In recorded human history the longest running and most stable governments have been forms of dictatorship, monarchy, feudal systems and the like. So simply looking at an idea and saying “it won’t work because it hasn’t worked before” or vice versa doesn’t factor in the details and conditions of WHY it didn’t work. Modern high tech aircraft designs literally couldn’t fly if they were tried in the past. Without computer controls they are too unstable for a human to fly. Computers and videogames or countless other technologies and concepts that are HUGE in the modern world have failed or been poised to fail because people just weren’t ready or…
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guest_
· 2 years ago
.. infrastructure wasn’t there. The way economies work, the way people think, culture values, all sorts of things change over time. Sometimes politics or special interests kill ideas history is a great teacher, but the lessons we learn depend on our ability to interpret and understand. They depend on wether we go to history with an open mind to learn, or we go to history looking to prove or disprove a conclusion we have already decided upon. In the end, history is an indicator of the future but not a guarantee. The stock market is a human creation that reflects the moods of people and shows us that even in a simplified man made system, historical data only gives so much useful insight to the future. It also shows us that trying to divine the future from the past can create self fulfilling prophecy. It is good to know history and consider it, but we can’t just say because some idea didn’t work once it wouldn’t work now or vice versa.
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funkmasterrex
· 2 years ago
Man i've only been up for an hour and my back hurts, i'm hungover and my dick has been rode raw....i can't handle the truth right now.
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guest_
· 2 years ago
Feel better soon, and no worries. The truth is always out there, so there isn’t a rush to get it while it lasts.
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