Show notes
Does history repeat itself? Not really, but that's not the reason it's worth studying: Our past is nothing more or less than the collective record of our species' achievements and failures, and it contains a variety of lessons, few of them easy and straightforward. In this episode, we explore how history helps us in the present, and how it doesn't. Patrick has a brand-new history show! It’s called Past Lives, and every episode explores the life of a real person who lived in the past.
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The past doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
“Easily disproved lies about the past don't persist because nobody has taken the time to correct them. They persist because they serve purposes for the people who espouse and deploy them.”
“We are not better than those people just because we happened to be born in a time with MRI machines and comprehensive blood tests.”
“A far more likely scenario is that a couple of guys drank too much fermented mare's milk and decided to see what would happen if they jumped on the semi-feral animal's back.”
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