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Learning The Wrong Lessons of History Is as Bad as Being Historically Illiterate
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The Post-covid recession.
The Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
The genocide in Gaza.
The Asian economic crises of 1998.
The inexorable slide into 1930s fascism.
The American tariffs.
Ukraine versus Russia.
Brexit.
The wars raging across the middle-east and north Africa.
Western support for radical islamists across the Sahelian region.
Global financial crash of 2008.
Do you know what these things have in common?
These events have happened at one point or another in the last two centuries.
That we fail to connect what took place in 1930s Germany when Adolf Hitler took a fringe movement — National Socialist Party — to the heart of the German polity and went on to commit unspeakable acts of horror upon millions to what’s happening in Gaza where women and children have been slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands tells you everything about our collective memories.
You would think that the events which culminated in the crash of wall street in 1929 would…