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 3 days ago (1 children)

basically this

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours 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.

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