It's a shame that significant facts and events of Western history are rarely taught to young students today. If they were, students might have some knowledge of and perspective on human nature and the societal pitfalls into which we are so prone to stumble.
Take the Jacobins of France--please. In his writings and podcasts, historian Victor Davis Hanson often compares today's "woke" radicals to them. For those who unfortunately don't follow the wise professor, a single page in the second volume of The Outline of History by H.G. Wells sums up the do-loop of history our fractured nation currently finds itself in.
Read this snippet from page 764; I've highlighted what struck me as especially relevant today. Try to convince me it's not an encapsulation of some of our current woes:
