One must marvel at the unlimited capacity of the human race not to learn from the past.

Take wars, for example. No war has in the long run achieved anything. Millions of people have died unnecessarily, mostly at the a whim of the regent, president, paramount chief, prime minister or reichs-chancellor.

Another case in point relates to what one could call "synthetic" political systems, such as communism.

While attractive in theory, it gets mangled by imperfect humans such as Lenin, Stalin or Chaiman Mao and their personal agendas. Mostly such systems have been discredited.

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