A very astute observation! In fact I almost included Santayana’s quote in the post. I think we keep repeating the past because we don’t understand the problem. It’s like not knowing what causes the disease. As I like to say, if you believe disease is caused by witchcraft, you burn witches. If you believe disease is caused by microorganisms you wash your hands. One belief causes enormous human suffering and doesn’t work. The other causes no suffering and does work.

It’s important to get our beliefs aligned with reality.