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In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, there’s a line where the professor says, “Logic!”… “Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?…”, the comment of an autistic person if ever I read one. 😂

We could ask the same about history. Absolutely everything occurs in an historical context. When we ignore history, we ignore context. We look at the small picture instead of the big one. There are different reasons for doing so, ignorance being the most common, but there are other reasons.

Some deliberately seek to ignore the past, for reasons of their own, to deceive &/or protect their own interests. Taking history into account might highlight their own interests, and the duplicity of their motives.

Some are driven to ignore it for other reasons, such as a desire to simplify the situation, making it easier to understand & find solutions, but at the risk of getting it badly wrong.

Some are driven by the desire to blame, to simplify the situation enough to make it easy to direct blame at a single person or group of people. And their desire to do so might be understandable. Their own situation might be so untenable, a solution so far out of their reach, that they are overwhelmed by frustration & anger. And who can blame them?

But does it help? Does it actually move them any closer to a real situation, or does it merely create a space to vent their anger, often at people who have little or no relationship to the situation & most certainly aren’t the key drivers? Does it allow the real culprits to gleefully walk away, free to continue in their machinations to rule the world, openly or from behind the scenes?

Divide & conquer was the call centuries ago, and it still works.
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