by Shilah » Mon May 19, 2014 6:02 pm
History requires that we be balanced and disciplined as we approach it. These are the things that people have done, and why they did so. Extremists might try to abuse history for their personal agenda, as we saw of Nostradamus and Hitler. Nostradamus predicted Hitler accurately, and Hitler tried to misread Nostradamus to imply that Hitler had some role to play in a heroic destiny. As we have seen, his National Socialist Party(NSDAP) is like every other socialist regime in history. Stalin tried much the same tactics to "justify" his leftist cult of personality. History remembers these tyrants for the horror that they caused and we also remember who helped them make those horrors happen. History teaches some of us that they learned nothing from history: the wise need only the one lesson.