Do you think history repeats itself? please give examples?

Question

some say the world we are living in now- will become like 1984 or like how it was when Hitler alive-

what do you think?

Answer 1

No, I don't think history will repeat itself because we have our history written down and stored away. So that we can look back at it and know what not to do in certain situations...we are suppose to learn from out past.

Answer 2

It's not history that repeats it's self,

but people repeating history . . .

Answer 3

The Bible

Answer 4

When Pat Robinson was considering running for President of the US...alot of people said "Great. All we need is some religious freak who thinks he's got a word from God and pushes the nuke button."

Now we got Iran and their president is pushing for nukes and has said he will use them against Israel and the US! And the public is aw....but he really doesn't mean it.

Answer 5

History , situations & conditions (famines, ripoffs-S&L,sub-prime loans), events (World Wars & peace agreements), kinds of people(Caligula & Bush43, JFK & Obama)), will always repeat if, like hurricanes and floods and fires , they keep coming back.

That said, since we know that to be the case! What's the next logical Q?: Do humans learn from history?

Yes, but humans, bec of ego,culture and language biases and other impediments that are periodically present --like ignorance and stupidity, poverty, lack of opportunity for education and health care,  are very slow learners indeed. But yes most do learn from history.

And so History--both human and natural history-does repeat--though never as identities do!

sidenote: Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984),[1] by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is a 1949 English novel about life under a futuristic totalitarian regime in the year 1984. It tells the story of Winston Smith, a functionary at the Ministry of Truth, whose work consists of editing historical accounts to fit the government's policies. Smith is degraded and tortured after he is arrested by the Thought Police under the instruction of the government of Oceania.

The book has major significance for its vision of an all-knowing government which uses pervasive and constant surveillance of the populace, insidious and blatant propaganda, and brutal control over its citizens. The book had a substantial impact both in literature and on the perception of public surveillance, inspiring such terms as 'Big Brother' and 'Orwellian'.

Bush43 regime is an example of a democratic gov't that has become increasingly totalitarian and which knowingly lies about the facts using propaganda machine(Rove) to brainwash the people ignorant of their anachronistic intentions to build a US empire at the expense of liberal values and civil rihts just like Russia once did. It seems that Russians are now repeating History again , bec fueled by wealth from oil exports, they are again looking to begin empire building at the expense of civil rights and civil rights under Putin! So you see in the history of civilizations , historical events ,situations, & certain kinds of people do repeat!

Answer 6

You've made one interesting question as childish! "History Repeats" doesn't mean the way you placed----no one is going back. Yet the idiom like 'history repeats' indicates that "We forget our pasts or forget the mistakes done before." Hence we do the same thing or same mistakes or plan the same way----i.e. repeatations of the historical events! Say for example, HITLER's activities. He was a dictator and he is a dictator in history, okay? Does that prevented others from being a dictators? Nope. Then? History repeated at their fates---the history of Hitler's fate. This way "History Repeats".

Answer 7

History repeats itself means patterns are repeated, not that physically the world would become a complete reflection of a certain time in past.

So if lessons aren't learned from the holocaust, and if the same patterns and scenarios are allowed to repeat, there might be another holocaust in the future.

So what is similar between the 'Vietnam war' and 'Iraq war'. Do these share any historical patterns.  

Answer 8

The fashion industry does not want to let go of the 60's so yes. That era has been repeated one to many times. I want to see the 80's come back.

As for world events. 1984 was a great year! at least it seems the celebs seemed to care  about the less fortunate. They raised $ for Africa and many other causes. Farm Aid, Band Aid. American Idol and some others seem to be raising $ for the less fortunate.

Answer 9

yes tons of wars and its not over yet!!!!!!!!!!

IT WILL BE EVEN WORSE WITH EVERYONE HAVING TO WORSHIP THE ANTICHRIST OR YOU WONT EAT....I THANK GOD FOR THE COMING RAPTURE OF THE BORNagains cuz that is too scary....ugh...