Lacking historical knowledge doesn't mean being doomed to repeat it. Having human desires means being doomed to repeat it. You don't see wars started for lack o

Lacking historical knowledge doesn't mean being doomed to repeat it. Having human desires means being doomed to repeat it. You don't see wars started for lack of history majors (we have more today than we did for most of human history). group A: We want your [food, resources, women, whatever]. group B: Uhm, those are ours, you can't have them. group A: Too bad, we're going to take them by force. History is interesting, but the world has changed so much in the last hundred years, that most situations one encounters today have little relation to the past. Humanity's base drives haven't changed, but most people like to pretend those don't apply to their ingroup, historical education or no. Simple, greed driven motivations only apply to Other People; we always ascribe more complicated and more noble motives to ourselves.