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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4023003" data-attributes="member: 4937">Hmmm, you must not have gotten the same speach about history in college that I did.I was told emphatically by the professor that history doesn't repeat itself.  I was told that people believed history repeated itself because they tended to forget history, didn't know the details of history, and liked to tell much simpler narratives about things than the real ones because it made them feel good about themselves.In any event, history is not repeating itself for me.  I'm having a completely different experience of current and past events than you are having.  It may very well be that for you, your experiences are repeating themselves.  But that only shows that what you are calling history is very subjective.</blockquote>