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The call to explore the history - as an attempt to decode the alleged repeatable cycles of potentially “dangerous” trends in thinking or behavior - is in fact a strong distraction. And it has no real use for you or me.

First, it assumes that invasive behaviors are/may be repeated and successful. Not this is a childish assumption. In any conflict, from negotiations of wages to modern marketing to psychology to international military actions, surprise is the only reliable factor of success. If you want to win, you must not do what was done before.

Every politician has this rule in their handbooks: lie, do whatever you want, evade, escape, lie again, but always do it in an inventive way so that nobody could correlate your actions against anything known before.

In organized crime, “history” is irrelevant. They don’t care about it. They invent new ways of doing their business adapted to the circumstances at hand. Law enforcement people try do the same, but are limited by their “by the book” rules. The military has no such limitations and does free-style fighting at will, at least until they are photographed or caught red-handed (see false flag operations). No history there.

Adapt, survive, overcome. This is also the master approach in all modern large scale business. Only the small man is taught and persuaded to learn history - because it is a valuable way of stealing their time and redirecting their efforts into waste land.

“History” in science is a laughing stock. People who do not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday talk freely about millions of years, ancient times and “discoveries” of archeology, paleo-whatever or astro-whatever. Come on, clean up your own house before spinning stories which you press on to convert into money, academic titles, royalties, fame and fake “creativity”.

Life does not know any history. You won’t be able to catch up with it when your mind is buried into stories about stories which no longer exist.

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