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The Golden Age - part III
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<blockquote data-quote="Walterp" data-source="post: 4505278" data-attributes="member: 321"><p><em>"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." </em>(George Santayana)</p><p></p><p>Only on TFF can one find people prepared to say that history offers no lessons, which says rather more about them than about history.</p><p></p><p>To pluck out one example (from a myriad that suggest themselves) - just a slight understanding of the violence of recent European history would disabuse any rational person of the notion that German industry would petition the Council of Ministers to favour the UK instead of buttressing European solidarity.</p><p></p><p>That farmers can be found who still support this notion - even after repeated proofs that it is (and always was) a foolish proposition - merely proves that they are zealots.</p><p></p><p>Santayana also helps explain why societies that are poor at literacy and numeracy (such as the UK and the USA) are so juvenile in their politics and economics - <em>"when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual." </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Walterp, post: 4505278, member: 321"] [I]"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [/I](George Santayana) Only on TFF can one find people prepared to say that history offers no lessons, which says rather more about them than about history. To pluck out one example (from a myriad that suggest themselves) - just a slight understanding of the violence of recent European history would disabuse any rational person of the notion that German industry would petition the Council of Ministers to favour the UK instead of buttressing European solidarity. That farmers can be found who still support this notion - even after repeated proofs that it is (and always was) a foolish proposition - merely proves that they are zealots. Santayana also helps explain why societies that are poor at literacy and numeracy (such as the UK and the USA) are so juvenile in their politics and economics - [I]"when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual." [/I] [/QUOTE]
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