History Doesn't Repeat or Rhyme

July 24, 2025

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history” -Aldous Huxley

Maybe this should be the preface for all unteachable lessons. There are certain lessons we just won’t learn unless we get burned first. It doesn’t matter how many people ahead of us touch the hot stove and have the scar to prove it. We need to try too.

 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recognized this as a trend for entire nations. History doesn’t just rhyme. It doesn’t just repeat. In fact, history doesn’t choose to do anything, we do. We make it rhyme and repeat in spite of all the glaring red flags.

Call it arrogance, ignorance, or just stupidity. We will continue to touch that white-hot-stove.