What we're seeing is people who do learn from history books being persecuted by those who don't because the latter are against knowledge, they love the ignorance (as in, ignoring the reality around them; in their minds, "don't see it = it doesn't exist").

That's why we're "seeing the future repeating the past" (to quote a verse from Cazuza's "O tempo não pára" song).

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

basically this

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I hate it and yet it’s so accurate. I will provide one upvote and one “damn you” internal monologue comment just to keep it neutral.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

eu vejo o futuro repetir o passado, eu vejo um museu de grandes novidades

i see the future repeat the past, i see a museum of great novelties

personally, i think we are still stuck in the same rut as 100 years ago. that's why it feels like the battles are the same. because they kind of are. cazuza may have had the right idea.

we should just learn the lessons already, but it sometimes feels like we are worse than square one now.