[Always A Marine]

"One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom."

"Everything seems new to those too young to remember the old and too ignorant of history to have heard about it."

Two pearls of wisdom from one of the great clear thinkers of our time.

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

"One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom."

Thomas Sowell always puts things in brilliantly simple and insightful way, but this sentence even more than others just pricked me at my core. It's so lucid I had to pause for a few moments before I could continue reading because a chill ran all the way down my spine.