What Is History For If Not A Time Like This?

We’ve become accustomed to excessive packaging and instructions and disclaimers — so it’s easy to put education into that recycle pile when we can’t see an immediate need for it.

Do history teachings come to fall into that? Is the risk greater because some topics are so widely known that their importance can be attributed to that?

And it’s easy to ignore history when it seems insensitive to past suffering to compare it to current conditions, or dismiss it when its cause seems unrelatable to current conditions.