The Zohner Family Blog

There is a line in both Peter Pan and Battlestar Galactica that says “All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.”  In other words, history repeats itself.

I just finished reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes and couldn’t help but get very fearful for the direction that our country is taking.  From the very first page, it was impossible for me to not see the parallels between the 1930′s and now.

I have always enjoyed history because there is so much to learn.  The funny thing about history though is that if you don’t know about it, chances are that you’re going to repeat it.  Heck, even if you do know about it, you’re probably going to repeat it. But if you have knowledge, you can at least try and change the outcome.  Look at the people that are running our country; they are making the exact same mistakes that politicians made in the 1920′s and 30′s.  I’m guessing that they don’t know very much about history.