All wit aside, this maxim rests up on the same central truth, which is that human history reveals a pattern of repetition.Ĭandace Owens tackles the history of the Democratic party’s relation to the black community through this lens of diachronic repetition in her candid work Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation. Mark Twain reputedly once quipped that “history never repeats itself, but it often rhymes”-a diverting twist to the original, now-cliche expression in a manner that is typical of the famous American humorist and author. The Greek historian Thucydides, known by the cognomen Father of History, famously said that “the events of future history will be of the same nature, or nearly so, as the history of the past, so long as men are men.” From this comes the age-old adage that “history repeats itself.”įew people challenge the validity of this claim. History often acts as an admonitory beacon-a guide for humanity when society runs astray amidst a cloud of ignorance.
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