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The Misuse of History
The problem is that there's an assumption built into it that's wrong. The idea that history teaches us lessons that you can then plug in x for y in another time period is wrong. There almost no historians believe that. And so when they start to use history as an example of what to do or not to do in a current or future situation, that is a misuse of it right there. It all goes back to if we'd only been tougher on hitler during his early moves, we could have avoided the second world war.