I am afraid the historic lessons of the 20th century with two World Wars, the Cold War and the use of the first nuclear weapons have been unlearned by the end of the first quarter of the 21st century!
This is a sad state of affairs at the beginning of the second quarter of the 21st century! It is certainly a regression/reversal for humanity! What will be the consequences?
I was just shocked this morning when I opened my daily USPS email titled "USPS Informed/Coming to you soon"
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana in 1905
Does this USPS picture not look eerily similar to this famous/infamous photo below dating 1963? USPS is mired in the DEI ideology!
"Police dog attacking Walter Gadsden, a student at Parker High School, during a civil rights demonstration in downtown Birmingham, Alabama." (Source)
""Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is a quote by Spanish philosopher George Santayana from his 1905 book Reason In Common Sense." Google AI correctly generated text.
The German football association came out with new tricot designs
The double-sig rune insignia of the SS
Humanity gets close to a World War III when history pairs up a megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible with a lifelong, pathological, and serial liar and senile, demented, and corrupt 46th President.
What does the former KGB agent Putin the Terrible know about the corruption of the 46th President and his clan? Maybe one day we will find out!
What a gigantic waste of resources! And for what purpose?
How much did naive, foolish Western countries pay for it?
One can only hope that the people living in Gaza finally learnt the lesson! Supporting or tolerating fanatic, cowardly killers and mass murderers among their midst is not a good idea and should be prevented going forward!
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
"... Americans who believe that the Holocaust is a myth include a significant number of young adults: 20% of people under 30 strongly agree or tend to agree that the Holocaust it is a myth, compared to fewer than 1% of people 65 and older. ...
While few Americans dispute the Holocaust, somewhat larger shares do tend to agree with certain negative statements about Israel, including that “The interests of Israelis are at odds with the interests of the rest of the world” (18%), that “Israel has too much control over global affairs” (19%), and that “Israel exploits Holocaust victimhood for its own purposes” (20%). Even more (27%) tend to agree that “Israel is deliberately trying to wipe out the Palestinian population.” These negative assessments of Israel are more often held by young adults and by Democrats than by older adults and by Republicans, reflecting the political and age differences seen in other polling on the Israel-Hamas war."
"... Thirty percent of respondents said they “did not know whether the Holocaust is a myth,” while 28% adopted the anti-Semitic statement that Jews “wield too much power in America.” ..."
Is it not curious how history repeats itself as if humans are inherently incapable of learning from history! This is a very sad fact to say the least!
There you have the current crusades of DEI, ESG, Global Warming/Climate Change, faux racism (illegal discrimination based on skin color), white old men, microaggressions and the list goes on and on!
Human progress seems significantly slower than molasses in this respect!
In 1787, Franklin stood before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, warning against a generously salaried congress: “Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice — the love of power and the love of money… Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. ...”
Franklin’s concerns were clearly not heeded. While the first members of Congress were paid $6 per day [how much is that actually in today's U.S. dollars. According to this source it is $30. Thus, it translated into $180 per day in today's money. Did first members of Congress really receive $6 per day back then?], members today receive a base salary of $174,000, placing them above 90 percent of American earners. This does not include additional annual allowances, which can run in the millions. Franklin also warned about the quality of leaders a hefty paycheck would attract:
Thomas Jefferson dreaded the politicization of the Supreme Court.
In an 1821 letter to Nathaniel Macon, Jefferson expressed concerns about the politicization of judicial power:
“Our government is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit, by consolidation first, and then corruption…. The engine of consolidation will be the federal judiciary; the two other branches the corrupting and corrupted instruments.” ...James Madison warned that an unarmed people and biased press would breed tyranny.
In his 1830 autobiography, Madison outlined the preconditions necessary for tyrannical rule:
“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”"
