Actually, the irony of my previous post could have been easily understood, and one could have avoided fixating on it and projecting their own insecurities, but alas, some found it easier to do otherwise. I had hoped that it would spark some kind of dialogue about the value of history and its contribution to the development of humanity as a whole, but oh well, let's just say it's about morality instead. Regarding the topic at hand, one of Hegel's famous aphorisms states that the only lesson history has taught is that it has never taught anyone anything. People can learn from their own mistakes, from the mistakes of others, but the vast majority will learn absolutely nothing; they are an inert mass, nothing more. All the wisdom, all the knowledge, all the morality of so-called society is the achievement of a small number of people who then spread all these "new and well-forgotten benefits" to the rest of society. Ultimately, I believe that this percentage is what drives, or rather pushes, the rest of humanity towards progress (or regression – it's a matter of personal preference). And history is just statistics