The Lessons of History

People argue all the time about what, if anything, can be learned from the study of history, but I have reached one pretty definite conclusion:

People, including or perhaps especially leaders, make a hell of alot of catastrophic mistakes.

By catastrophic, I mean mistakes that get them personally and frequently entire populations, slaughtered.

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