[aroundabout]

"He recommends the study of history to avoid repeating the failures of the past, not to be demoralized by them. If the study of the failures of the past demoralize a person, well, that says something about the person, not about Prof. Hanson."

Seems to me as if he has already determined we are doomed. Unless you believe all is pre ordained then he is more an alarmist then anything else. Doom sayers and end of the world types are nothing new. One day one of them will actually be right.

[Cheburashka]

Seems to me as if he has already determined we are doomed.

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I've read a great deal of what he has written, and I find nothing it it like what you describe.