• Daemon Silverstein@calckey.world
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    1 day ago

    @yogthos@lemmy.ml

    I like that quote that says “Something that we can learn from history books is that people can’t learn from history books”.

    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).

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      1 day 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.