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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you wouldn't learn that from history books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes you would - that's what history is - the record of human failure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they don't tell you much about human success where countries don't go to war and genocides don't happen. So you can't compare effectively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You seem to be defining "success" as nothing happening which... is the opposite of how I'd define it.

"Success" is when you achieve gaining more power over an entity - whether that entity is a country, a business, or one's own life.