General Public Never Learns From The Past

Many years ago people had pocketwatches which were often dropped to the ground and thus broke. In order to prevent this, people eventually started to attach chains from their pockets to these watches. Today people have cellphones which they inevitably drop to the ground and thus break, so where are such chains today? Idly hanging from people's pockets like an appendix whose origins no one knows nor cares to remember as useless decorative objects hang from their cellphones, of course.

"So what, who cares." one might say while going through cellphone after cellphone with money one doesn't really have and probably owes to the banks more than once over. As one is never criticized for the foolishness of ones collective, you cannot be considered foolish for being played for a fool since everyone else is too. It is through vanity that situations arise where obvious solutions and possibilities are systematically ignored for the sake of conformity, but what good is allowing a group of people to make your decisions for you, when said group can't outsmart a single individual from the 16th century? Obviously the answer is none.

Telling people of the past will not guide their way into the future. Sure history repeats and by all means learn from it, but do not expect the general public to learn from points of reference outside their temporal comfort zones. History only repeats itself because majority of people are stuck in superficial cultural roles which together form an almost unbreakable multigenerational loop. It is disappointing to see how vanity and that strange compulsion to unquestioningly conform are running the world today. Whether it's the social, financial or political decisions, appearance rather than function effectively determines the actions and decisions of most people and only for the sake of easy and quick self-gratification.

When scientists don't know they will tell you so, (unless of course they happen to be members of the academia,) which is why people put their trust in economists and other soothsayers arrogantly boasting, proclaiming and prophesizing of the future from their personal opinions and subjective perceptions. What they say is not only abstract and fague, but totally disconnected from causal links of reality and human well-being, none of which really matters to those who "feel what they're saying" (as in like to blame others for problems of their own creation). Being right twice a day doesn't make a broken watch trustworthy, but if you "feel what it's saying" ...apparently for most people that is good enough.

Almost all mistakes, even wars, could be prevented with bit of perspective and just a little reflection, but "If we learned to avoid wars, there would be no war movies." as the internal monologues of the voting public may proclaim from the comfort of  their sofas. We have already wasted most of what dinosaurs paid for with billions years of rotting in earth's crust, so perhaps it is simply our turn to rot next.  So, is the glass half full or half empty when the contents are pouring onto the table? Maintainers of the status quo will helpfully point out that the table is made of glass, so you have nothing to worry about.

We live at a point in human history where we may observe reality smoothly overlapping with satire as ideology tries to attack technical reality, frequently turning society into a legal battleground with countless lifes lost within the bureaucracy. It doesn't take great insight to know the outcome, but explaining that to any person stubborn enough to believe in the validity of personal opinions will just earn you lots of self-proclaimed enemies determined to undermine your every move.

In conclusion, teaching the general public about historical events is a waste of your time and effort. To reshape the future you must do it with the unwavering 'confidence' of a meteor, blasting through all obstacles in your way, till you get a chance to produce an impact great enough to take a few hundred years to corrode out of existence.