If you spend enough time reading history, a strange realization starts to creep in.
Human beings are very good at recording the past. We write books about it. We build museums. We make documentaries and podcasts and university courses explaining exactly what went wrong and why.
And then we go out and make the same mistakes all over again.
This pattern repeats so often that it raises an uncomfortable question. If the lessons of history are so clear — why do we keep ignoring them?
