Those Who Do Not Learn The Lessons of History Are Probably Also Failing Political Science
Apologies to PJ O’Rourke (I think) for the headline.
Read this. Then read this. Then gently knock your head against the table a few times.
Americans, riddle me this: A Modest Proposal isn’t taught in college much, is it? Or maybe it is, and the professor can have endless hours of fun watching people read it literally and become comically outraged. “Well, I happen to think eating babies is wrong, even if they are Irish!”
Or rather:
And one more thing. Your ideas aren’t all that revolutionary. Not too long ago, a man with similar ideas came to power and started “cleaning” his nation of useless people in order to get rid of population and economic problems.[Pause for dramatic emphasis inserted here – O.R.] His name was Hitler.
A zinger, that one. Call Mike Godwin!
