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Looking at history can tell you a lot about the future. In fact everything we predict about the future i based on history no?
5Likes This is a discussion on Is history all a load of bunkum? within the Coffee Room forums, part of the The House of Commons category; The other day at work, there was a general conversation going on about history. When someone said, 'all those who ...
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Is history all a load of bunkum?
The other day at work, there was a general conversation going on about history. When someone said, 'all those who believe in history are living in the past, it is the future you need to worry about.' Of course the argument created from those words left me thinking. I wonder if you can answer this. Is history just an easy way of living in the past and ignoring the future?
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Looking at history can tell you a lot about the future. In fact everything we predict about the future i based on history no?
So unproductive has conservatism been in producing a general conception of how a social order is maintained that its modern votaries, in trying to construct a theoretical foundation, invariably find themselves appealing almost exclusively to authors who regarded themselves as liberal. - F.A. Hayek
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absolutely agree , i think history is very important. Almost like societies memory , there is so much to learn from history , as it often repeats.
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History conditions the present which in turn shapes the future.
"The object of universities is not to make skilful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings." John Stewart Mill
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Most of history's man-made disasters are the result of the actions of people who believed themselves better than history itself.
Without history, you don't know jack s**t.
"Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people." - Jimmy Reid
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I love history and think the posts here have already covered what I think its value is. I would only add that a love of history isn't living in the past , it's listening to it.
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