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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham
History That Doesn't Suck
History Does Not Repeat, but People Do
People say history repeats. Why is that? And why does everyone say that regardless of what they're trying to prove? I think my argument is more pessimistic than your initial thought here, and it's that history does not repeat, but people do. Over and over, people act like they've always acted. They have the same impulses, the same needs, the same desires,. The same need to claw their way forward in the same way. So no wonder if you've got a couple billion of these machines all designed and built the same with not too many upgrades, we have upgraded our life on this planet. We have to reconcile that.
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