sosodank t1_it85qxs wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:04 PM

Reply to comment by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

the best thing you could do, then, is read some history. everything has happened before, and everything will happen again.

makingnoise t1_it8y4zc wrote on October 21, 2022 at 8:14 PM

I think this statement fails to capture for some folks the importance of history. Knowing what happened in the past is one thing, understanding why things happened in the past is another thing. People with a failure of imagination know that fascism rose to power in WWII, but see no modern parallels because they never realized the purpose of learning history was to relate the past to the present.