Making the billionaire tax work // How does the US-China Great Power competition end? [#560]
“The lesson from the past” - would that we ever truly learned lessons from the past
As you say: there may be lessons but we may not be very attentive to them. I’m reminded of the academics who ended up working in the Kennedy administration, and realised how fraught the business of historical analogy was. They wrote a book about it, which I discussed here: https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/learning-from-history-thinking-in-time-neustadt-may/.
“The lesson from the past” - would that we ever truly learned lessons from the past
As you say: there may be lessons but we may not be very attentive to them. I’m reminded of the academics who ended up working in the Kennedy administration, and realised how fraught the business of historical analogy was. They wrote a book about it, which I discussed here: https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/learning-from-history-thinking-in-time-neustadt-may/.