Our Terrible History: We Hate to Hear about it, so we Don't Learn It, Don't Learn FROM it, and Thus "Are #Doomed to Repeat It" | Luckily, we have @BigThink @iamJohnOliver @Wikipedia to remind us how we mess up all the time ...

You've heard the saying, "Those who don't learn from History are doomed to repeat it." Well, John Oliver explains how that plays-out in the video below.

'That word' (below-hyperlinked to a report on the probable origin of the phrase) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...

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The word “|Doom|” is built on ancient words that mean "to |Set, Place, |Put, Do (and also the roots of Law & |Attention)" (evolving through words that mean |Judgment, Decree; Discernment, |Distinction; |Statute, Dissent, Administration of Justice, Equity, Righteousness). 

#Doomsday (whose root isn't so much 'doom' the way we think of it today, but is more like "Dominion/Domination") #Doomed #Dooming #Dooms

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some more notes on Professor Oliver's lecture—things I feel I ought to remember:

Juneteenth, Racism, Slavery, the |Tulsa Race-Massacre, the Root-Cause of the U.S. Civil War (and other things people commonly don't know-about due to a lapse in National |Standards for Education about History), 

Things We Need to Change (unless it should now be Standard for people to Learn about Historical |Events through Popular-|Entertainment) Schools Need-to |Fully Acknowledge White Supremacy, -to |Stop Viewing History as if it were Constantly Upward & Inevitable, & -to |Start Connecting Our Past to The Present), 

the formerly-|Confederate-States' attempt to Defy the 'Law' that states "History is Written by the Winners"—writing |Textbooks in such a way as Try-to Justify their |Rebellion and -to paint Slavery as if it were 'that time when Settlers would invite Negroes to the Farm "to |Help Work the Fields & Do Chores"' 

Teachers are Crucial to the Process, 'Verifying' (or at least 'Agreeing & therefore |Inscribing on Students' Minds') the |Skewed History we Learned, often 'sweeping under the rug' the negative qualities of great things like The Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution & Thomas Jefferson 

the only attempted-Coup détat that took place on American soil? how the Wealth-Gap is a result of historical precedents; the current hate of the word Nigger; we have to UnLearn the Myths (like 'that there's no Responsibility attached to American Exceptionalism')