History is hard

History's always been a story as much of blundering into easily foreseen mistakes as it's been of progress or the steady advance of civilization. Duh. But this understanding doesn't make it any easier to live with the daily reality of idiocy red in tooth and claw .... and applauded by multitudes!

Some of us are over-educated for our own good, of course. Self created statistical outliers perhaps who, Cassandra-like, have seen (or read :) it all before and could tell anyone who cared to ask just what the outcome of most scenarios would most likely be. Ignored of course by those with the will and the power to effect change.

Thought without action, action without thought; it's the human comedy and the Gods LOL