The Past as Prologue

We've all heard or read this: 

Except what's also true is that if there's one thing we've learned from history is that we don't learn from history. I lived in (West) Germany from 1976 through 1991 and never understood how the nation that gave the world Rilke and Beethoven also gave us Goebbels and Endlösung. I fear that means I will never understand how it can be possible when it all happens again. 

You've got to be carefully taught.
-bill kenny