To the contrary the world is a story of learning from its history in every department of activity. That should be self evident. That similar human mistakes or mistaken actions can recur simply means no more than that the pattern of progress and advancement is not smoothly uniform.
Rules change, and we do learn from the mistakes of others. However, human emotions create predictable responses that have remained substantially unchanged for several hundred years.
i defnitely agree, people do not ever learn from history... including myself, i repeat the same mistakes over and over... doh.