The parallel to the use of the guillotine in the French Revolution may be the toppling of states in recent times. As Robespierre found out the practice of denouncing the politically incorrect can backfire, something the statue topplers may yet discover.

When the problems of the future seem impossible to solve the answer seems to be magical thinking. An example the author may agree with is the notion that green hydrogen will solve all energy problems. I think the fantasy will fade away when the funding runs out, the reason being it wastes too much energy. The green optimists are actually leading us up the garden path and one day they too will be denounced.

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The climate scam's dead. Leave it be.

Yes. And the 1930s everyone is now talking about. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia - both being reenacted by the Chinese Communist Party. Why do we bother. History is repeating itself because we don't learn from it.

"Contemporary Nihilism is presently manifested in the mindless iconoclasm of the ‘cancel culture’, exemplified by its wilful and irresponsible street demonstrations in the presence of a pandemic, its ruthless destruction of reputations, vandalism of historical monuments and artefacts, along with the denunciation of Western Civilization, liberal democracy, capitalism, nationalism, ‘white people’, their history and everything to do with any of them". (Mervyn Bendle)

It’s also evident in our universities. There, tenured academics elaborate and promote this Nihilistic agenda, while leaving its practical political implementation to the contemporary versions of the Hitler Youth and the Red Guards who dominate the streets.

Every part of history is uniquely different, and applying it to the present is not straight forward.
But lessons there are.
History as a precedent must not be confused with shooting from the hip.
Instinctve reactions of self preservation will always win out.

History is actually divided into two aspects, one personal, and one actually affecting the group, with totally different outcomes for the individual.

Mostly outcomes are purely luck of the draw. Read Nassim Taleb for modern analysis on scientific predictability of human outcomes.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

Averys' liberal views in this, the historical reading of events and conclusions, and previous similar publications, are interesting.

Dan

There's the Proof !
People are becoming increasingly stupid !