History Repeats Itself

You know there is an old saying, "Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it." I don't recall who said this, but it is so true.



The following quote is a great example of what is needed in light of the current political and economic situations:

"SOME FERTILE FIELDS IN WHICH
"NEW LEADERSHIP" WILL BE REQUIRED
Before leaving this chapter, your attention is called to a few of the fertile fields in which there has been a
decline of leadership, and in which the new type of leader may find an abundance of OPPORTUNITY.

First. In the field of politics there is a most insistent demand for new leaders; a demand which indicates
nothing less than an emergency. The majority of politicians have, seemingly, become high-grade, legalized
racketeers. They have increased taxes and debauched the machinery of industry and business until the people
can no longer stand the burden.


Second. The banking business is undergoing a reform. The leaders in this field have almost entirely lost the
confidence of the public. Already the bankers have sensed the need of reform, and they have begun it.


Third. Industry calls for new leaders. The old type of leaders thought and moved in terms of dividends instead
of thinking and moving in terms of human equations! The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard
himself as a quasi-public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work hardship
on no individual, or group of individuals. Exploitation of working men is a thing of the past. Let the man who
aspires to leadership in the field of business, industry, and labor remember this.


Fourth. The religious leader of the future will be forced to give more attention to the temporal needs of his
followers, in the solution of their economic and personal problems of the present, and less attention to the dead
past, and the yet unborn future.


Fifth. In the professions of law, medicine, and education, a new brand of leadership, and to some extent, new
leaders will become a necessity. This is especially true in the field of education. The leader in that field must,
in the future, find ways and means of teaching people HOW TO APPLY the knowledge they receive in school.
He must deal more with PRACTICE and less with THEORY.


Sixth. New leaders will be required in the field of Journalism. Newspapers of the future, to be conducted
successfully, must be divorced from "special privilege" and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They
must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of
newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch
the human mind."



Sounds like a great recipe for solving our current "Crisis." Yet this is a quote from Napolean Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" published in 1938, writtend at the end of the Great Depression. The same evils that plagued society in the late 20's seems to be the same as today.



We had better learn from history, or we will repeat it!