When people quote "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it", what do they mean?
This video uses Chinese dynasties to show how the theory of historical cycles work and how to apply them to our current situation. The video asks the question "Are we headed towards an age of chaos?" but anons on here would quickly answer, we've already entered.
Anyway, it's a very interesting video and I am wondering if Holla Forumsacks have any more information on historical cycles I would like to learn. Also lets discuss this video.
If you don't understand the past and learn from it, you are doomed to make the same mistakes as those in the past did.
A good example would be Rome.
Justin Cruz
Bronze Age Collapse One solar flair, one large volcano, one more world war, one bad plague, just one systemic disaster and globalism is gone. Globalism that sapped most nations' self sufficiency. When the oil market falls out, when the oil supplying states fall into succession wars, when China closes up and stops sending shit to the west, the world will buckle at the knees.
Christopher Bennett
Addendum. If this video was interesting, the author of the video had a great discussion in a radio show here. Basically, he talks about (((psychopaths))) and their relationship in society. The summary is as follows:
1. During Age of Warriors, (((psychopaths}}} cannot dominate because the warrior rulers get repulsed by lack of morals and ideals from them and thus work to exclude them from power.
2. During Age of Intellect, the intellectual class dominating at the time can detect dishonesty and corruptibility of the (((psychopaths))) and thus work to exclude them from power.
3. During Age of Merchant, society values money and bureaucrats try to gorge themselves with money as much as possible. As a result, the (((psychopaths))) have access to an attack vector and begin their ascent of power.
4. During Age of Chaos, the (((psychopaths))) have taken total control of society and society collapses. Order is lost, knowledge is lost and society is destroyed.
Daniel Allen
While only one of the many reasons Rome fell, the influx of foreign "barbarians" was often at Roman invitation since according to policy makers of the time they needed them for economic and military purposes ring a bell?
Eli Taylor
Here's all the info I have on this topics
Carson Brown
Some think empires go in this cycle.
1. The age of outburst (or pioneers). 2. The age of conquests. 3. The age of commerce. 4. The age of affluence. 5. The age of intellect. 6. The age of decadence. 7. The age of decline and collapse.
I think it's a solid template but rarely are things so simple and clean.
There are many things that we can learn from history. Technology changes, but as humans we are pretty much the same as our ancestors 10,000 years ago. Recorded history doesn't even go back that far, not reliably. So basically any historical context you may look at, they were the same sort of people as us, just in different circumstances. For that reason, we can look at how people responded to various things and learn from their mistakes or try to imitate their successes.
Like this user implied, there's a lot we can learn from the collapse of Rome. There are many similarities between Rome then and the US now, and for the West in general. Massive influxes of foreigners for one, historically this has always been an indicator of decline.
Owen Stewart
Another perspective to history is a socio-biological one. This video does a phenomenal job using organisms as an analogy.
1. Birth of an organism 2. Growth of an organism 3. Reproduction of an organism 4. Decline of an organism 5. Death of an organism.
Lucas Mitchell
It's essentially a phrase that's misused more often than not to promote cuck agendas. "If you don't let in every Ahmed and Abdul, and their broods, you'll be just like those Nazis who murdered ten billion Jews!" Meanwhile if you want to say, restrict immigration since it's clearly helping to replace your people and civilizations (see: plenty of empires in the past - most notably would probably be Rome), you'll be told that you're "ignorant". And there's another word that is misused as often as the word "Literally". Ignorance now essentially just means: "Anything that disagrees with 'liberal' ideology". Saying that we're all the same race is seen as intelligent and progressive, while pointing out issues like IQ differences, higher rates of disease/mental issues with certain races, blatant physical differences, etc. is seen as ignorant. Speech is incredibly important, and when you bastardize it you affect people more than you know. An easily observable example is how SJWs have pissed off so many people by calling everything under the sun "Racist/sexist/homophobic".
Michael Carter
Totally agree! I was about to write in OP that it's not just a phrase that snarky libtards use to sound intellectually superior to you (even though they don't know what it means).
