"history repeats itself" ?

Question

can anybody justify or nullify this term?

Answer 1

It's not that humans "don't learn from history" - history does indeed repeat itself, but if we put it in a perspective of an "ignorant human race, bound to repeat history because they refuse to learn from it", it seems that it's almost our sin - but it is actually an inevitability.

Why?
History always has, and always will repeat itself because cyclical changes are central to the condition of human society.

So, it's not that "not knowing the past bounds you to repeat it" - it's a fact of life that when something highly probable happens in one place at one time, it's highly probable that it will happen again, in the same or similar form - BECAUSE it is highly probable. No?

Answer 2

In a general sence but yes it is a rude simplification much as saying Polish people are stubborn or that the Scots are tight with a dollar. That said there are eerie incidents such as the Stolen Election of 1876 - - - when a Republican 'reluctantly' agreed with Republican Friends/Party Leaders that voting irregularities in Florida and Louisianna, plus Oregon and South Carolina, left the actual vote count uncertain and thus aggitatted for some sort of recount, playing out several legal strategies until the decision was given to a 'bipartisan' commission who decided on Republican Rutherford B Hayes over the cold personality challenged Democrat Samuel Tilden.

The two World Wars are a stretch in that the motivations were quite different and the players had but a suoperficial resemblance. However in the Case of Poland, a flat plain between beligerent powers it has frequently been 'partitioned.'
And finally during Ameria's 19th Century, a Depression hit with regularity every fourteen years often due to the same causes and the effects were equally predictable so a person living through the Century and building up their assests only to lose their assets again & again would feel that history was repeating - - -

But it is true that History has rarely a perfect mirror// a final odd example. In 1865 A Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater. In 1963 JFK was shot while a passenger in a Ford Lincoln. Both Presidents had a Southern Vice President named Johnson. Both men were murdered by men with three names; John WIlkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, count the number of letters.

Peace....

Answer 3

In the Vietnam war, the press took great joy in only reporting negativity in Vietnam, convincing the VC and the North Vietnamese that if they just held on awhile the US would withdraw.

In Iraq, the press.....many if not most who learned their job during Vietnam....take great joy in only reporting negativity, helping Al Quada and the insurgents believe that if they only hold out a little longer and kill a few more Americans while they're at it the the US will withdraw.

It's called "giving aid and comfort to the enemy".

Answer 4

i completely trust the quote! i think background repeats itself, because of fact the human race would not prefer to study from previous studies! besides, background is often written by utilizing the victor - which ends up in a subjective view... and with a view to work out the great photograph (and study from it!) - you'll be waiting to work out the two facets of a tale. i think milan kundera wrote (in the foreword to his "the humorous tale") something approximately background which will basically be discovered from while "mythesists" end writing it... =) quote that sums it up the main suitable regardless of the undeniable fact that, is: George Wilhelm Hegel: What experience and background coach is this -- that folk and governments in no way have discovered something from background, or acted on concepts.

Answer 5

There was another question like this, I answered look at these men:
Santa Anna
Hitler
Napoleon


They all tried to dominate in their occupying lands, their main problem that led to defeat was the fact that they spread their forces to thin, and ended up getting dominated themselves.

We study history, in order to prevent repeating it.

Answer 6

Well there were two world wars, they have concentration camps in the east today.
People don't learn from history and don't think about the future when they do something.

Answer 7

man is born. man is introduced to a community. man learns to be a man in said community. said community has various jobs and social roles. one role is that of ruler, or adviser. resources become scarce (whether it be land, religious tolerance, or things to keep tirgger-happy kings from being bored). community creates conflict. many suffer. man dies.

wash, dry, rinse, repeat.