Are We Doomed to Repeat History?

When I saw this post this morning my first thought was “oh no are we doomed to follow this path again?!” In that moment, the fear gripped my heart and I felt a sense of doom for mankind. Then I saw one person’s comment that said “Fear Mongering” and it made me think. In 1918, we were still coming out of a period of great inequality, ignorance, and injustice. Although the world was beginning to change there was still inequality between men & women, between the races, the classes, and the educated and uneducated and on and on. Over the decades, we have grown and evolved as a species and although there is still much growth that needs to be done, we are way further ahead than we were in 1918. How do I know this? Just look around you. If you do you’ll see the advances that we’ve made in equality all around the globe in the form of women’s rights, the end of slavery, the ability of 3 rd world countries like India to work their way out of poverty, and so man