- 01 Mar 2019 04:16
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I have been reading/studying history most of my life. I find it endlessly fascinating. I am also fascinated by human nature and see, what I consider to be, remarkable parallels between these two areas. When I read history I see the hidden, and sometimes not so hidden, influence of human nature on events. A very predominant controller/influence on history is, simply, human nature. Human nature may vary but it essentially remains constant through the ages. I find that to study history is to study human nature in all of it's strengths and weaknesses. Mostly, unfortunately, it's weaknesses. You have all heard the expression that history repeats. This is true, I feel, due to the fact that it's most influential determinator is, simply, human nature. An obvious example is the boom and bust cycle which is a frequent historical event. It is human nature to crave power/money. Power/money is highly intoxicating which results, sooner or later, in a distancing from facts/reality. Humans become intoxicated with increasing supplies of power/money and separated from reality. As their power/money accumulates we have boom. When reality sets in we have bust.
So what is the point of this? There is none . But the surest way to predict the future, a long popular pastime, is to study current events and history and apply a good dose of human nature.
Trump? He will eventually crash gloriously ……. I think I feel it coming close.
So what is the point of this? There is none . But the surest way to predict the future, a long popular pastime, is to study current events and history and apply a good dose of human nature.
Trump? He will eventually crash gloriously ……. I think I feel it coming close.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897