: "History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
@thedisasterautist Much like accidents. 🤔
@Jezibaba: That's the thrust of it, yes. That's the thing about people in the present who look very obvious disasters and catastrophes of the past. They almost invariably look at it all, all of the multidisciplinary analyses of it that's happened over time, and said, "See, the didn't do it *right* back then" and/or "They didn't go far *enough*" and "We're smarter than they were", and then the do it again and get the same results exactly. Then in a generation or four it happens again.
@thedisasterautist I have my own thinking on this but I'm curious as to why you think this happens? Why does it happen again?
@Jezibaba: Human nature. It's a constant. It's the desire to control, to get what one wants, to perfect, to satisfy the ego, and yes, even to do well, to help, to Do The Right Thing. As Buddha his own self said and I know paraphrase: The process of Enlightenment, particularly the battle against the Mara, never ends. The more advanced and all we think we are, the more we as humans tend to, for lack of a better phrasing, "take it out on others "for their own good", which shows we are savages.
