Something someone said...

Check out this blog that I follow- a specific post that... http://documentaryarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/millstones.html .  My friend Tim Cahill (hey Tim, gonna use your words today as a springboard for what I've been thinking about lately), is the author.
I guess what my question is, can we learn from our mistakes?  Can we use our hindsight and make decisions accordingly?  As a collective...as a country, as a world, as a macrocosm.  My answer to that is no.  Not at all.  The reason is because we can't do it as individuals.  We can't do it on the microcosmic level yet, which would prove to be the example for the macrocosm.
How many times have you made the same poor judgement call?  I'm not talking about sticking your hand in fire over and over or running into the edge of a table every time you walk by it (although, sometimes that experience can be repeated due to sleepiness, or drunkenness or something else that makes us not aware).  I'm talking about getting into the same situation with a job or a person or even maybe something like driving down a busy street "Dammit, I should have taken the back roads...this always happens!"
Let's take relationships as an example because it's easy for me.  Look back at all your past relationships and you will probably find a pattern, a 'type', that you are attracted to.  And generally all those relationships failed, were harmful, or just not good.  You have to be really honest with yourself, though, to see it.  There usually is at least one factor that is similar in all of the people you chose.  Now, if you are married or in a committed relationship, look at that person...does he/she carry that same quality?  Maybe, maybe not.  The quality that makes a relationship bad, I think I can safely say, is not there if you are happy with someone.  I mean happy for real,  You can look at your partner, cock your head, and say, "Yep, I'm good'.
So, where am I going?  Okay, most of the people I know, after experiencing one bad relationship after another continue seeking out the same type of person.  Over and over.  Different person, different look, different job, perhaps, different everything, except for that one little thing that ensures failure.
So, if we can't see that.  If we can't learn from those kind of mistakes, then how in the world are we gonna be able as a collective learn from these huge mistakes of destruction, annihilation, genocide, etc.  We can't admit to our individual poor choices.  We can't be humble.  We can't be introspective.  We can't admit when we are wrong.  Not as individuals.  Until that happens, we'll never learn and are destined for greater and greater destuction. Think about someone in an abusive relationship.  Let's say it's a woman with an abusive man.  So she started out in high school with a guy who always talked down to her, messed with her head a bit and cheated on her repeatedly.   Next, she's in college and the dude she's with when he drinks verbally abuses her like the last guy, but one night he hits her.  She stays with him until finally he dumps her for someone else.
Then she marries a cat who does all that stuff and repeatedly sends her to the hospital, eventually killing her.    See where I'm going?  It doesn't get better.  She doesn't recognize the patterns and so gets into worse and worse situations.  This is what we're doing as a world.  We keep picking the same asshole.

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