I was thinking this morning about how those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Also doomed to repeat it: those who do study history. My reasoning is basically this: individual will isn’t a large enough node in the big system to cause specific change, at least not relative to the far larger aggregated influence of popular sentiment and its equal/opposite counterculture, plus the scattered offshoots of seemingly unique small movements.
Big Systems, Cycles, the Weather
Big Systems, Cycles, the Weather
Big Systems, Cycles, the Weather
I was thinking this morning about how those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Also doomed to repeat it: those who do study history. My reasoning is basically this: individual will isn’t a large enough node in the big system to cause specific change, at least not relative to the far larger aggregated influence of popular sentiment and its equal/opposite counterculture, plus the scattered offshoots of seemingly unique small movements.