The inability to learn from mistakes, including the most enormous and consequential errors, is the stuff of long-term decay. And while it is nothing new, there’s no comfort in such stark human reality. While we think of scientific progress as a steady rise in the tide of knowledge, the truth is far messier and more frustrating. Backsliding into ignorance relatively commonplace.
How long we’re made to stay there determines the level of violence and upset which frees up the next, inevitable non-linear step forward; the fifties followed the forties set in motion by the gross mismanagement marking the thirties.
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