[Little Ray]

Actually, in the 25 century it will be taught as a barbarian migration, aided an abetted by wealth patricians who wanted cheap labor. The barbarians eventually turned on the host country and destroyed it, including the wealthy patricians.

Oh, wait. That already happened. It was called “Rome.”

[lentulusgracchus]

There are a ton of lessons, social, economic, and political, being vigorously ignored in all that pile of Western history.

But, as Benjamin Franklin used to say, "Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other."