Are Those Who Cannot Remember The Past Condemned To Repeat It?

A New Interpretation of "History Repeats Itself"

The notion that history repeats itself can be found in Burke, Marx, Santayana, and Churchill, to name only a few. Nietzsche’s notion of Eternal Return, drawing on Eastern mythology, conceives the entire history of the world as a repetitious loop, one long GIF billions of years old.

The common adage, variously attributed, that those who do not study the p…