In keeping with the apparent mood of the day.
(Lisa Benson) The sudden fascination with tearing down statues that were there for a decades is just today's version of this old standard, used by fascists or communists (like Antifa and Black Lives Matter) for centuries.
There's a common misquote of George Santayana that goes, "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it". To be honest, I like the misquote better than the original. We can twist this to say, "those who prevent people from learning from the past are condemning themselves to repeat it."
In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.
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Yeah, but we're Old White Men, and we don't count in the new (P)regressive world!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter that old greybeards like us made it all possible......
The progs want to feast on the (free) carcass of a nation without contributing to it. $20 trillion to them was not enough. X2 on what DRJIM wrote above.
ReplyDelete"There's a common misquote of George Santayana that goes, 'Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it'."
ReplyDeleteThose who fail History are condemned to repeat it next semester.