Thank you, for this, @themadgoat ! I hope it’s read and shared widely. It seems you’ve developed a taste for philosophy & history since you were a young one 🤓
Here’s another Santayana quote for you:
As it is, we live experimentally, moodily, in the dark; each generation breaks its egg-shell with the same haste and assurance as the last, pecks at the same indigestible pebbles, dreams the same dreams, or others just as absurd, and if it hears anything of what former men have learned by experience, it corrects their maxims by its first impressions, and rushes down any untrodden path which it finds alluring, to die in its own way, or become wise too late and to no purpose.
By the way, if you’re interested, drop me a line at [email protected] & I’m happy to gift you ecopy of my new book
Cheers ✌🏼