Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Welcome to History on Repeat!

"...by 1884, for all intents and purposes, we had depleted our stock of original ideas."
-- Libris, chapter 11, "A Well of Lost Plots" by Jasper Fforde
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"Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it."

This is a phrase often uttered by my mother. Until I started watching the news, reading the newspapers (something we are in no short supply of, my father reads five newspapers a day), and making an effort to understand my surroundings, this was a silly cliche to me. Not anymore.
Every day, we see more and more examples of the vicious cycle of time. We look at the happenings around us, and the doings of our religious leaders, political leaders, educational leaders, economic leaders and whatever other kinds of leaders we come across, and we say, "Oh, it's just (insert name of past mistake by different leader here) all over again." Except now, we have the internet to spread the news faster and farther than ever before.
This blog is my attempt to make sense of some of the madness in today's world. I want to look at the present, and even the future, through the lenses of history, and see if I can't use 20/20 hindsight to clarify events of today and tomorrow.

--Xander

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