Hey all:

For my next post I plan to write on something that really fascinates me, this being the chair which British monarchs are crowned upon. This is of course the Coronation Chair, otherwise knosn as King Edwards Chair. This really is to remind me to research and write the post haha so stay tuned children for more after the break! Frig...I love history.

-a history student

I have just a couple things on my mind today. It is often said that the reason why we learn history is so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. This is a very idealistic statement for it has been said that the only thing we have learned from history is that we never learn from history. Oh, how true this is, when faced with new problems we repeat the old mistakes of the past. For example, warfare is constantly changing, it has gone from thousands of men fighting in line formation in an open field to the small scale straegic guerrila warfare we are hearing about in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even though warfare has had to change and adapt to new situations, enemies, battle zones etc. it's still war, it's still the same killing we've been doing for millenia. The only thing we have learned is how to adapt warfare to new situations, we certainly have not learned how to stop warfare. History does repeeat itself, and it seems the world is doomed to be on a killing loop until it, or more likely the humac race, ceases to exist.

The next thing on my mind was something I found while combing through some quotations by Winston Churchill. Churchill once said, "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." How true this is, we see it all throughout history such as the crusades, Nazism, Soviet style Communism (such as under Stalin), and dare I say it the right wing Christian conservative population of North American, with its base in the United States. Of course, Christianity is not the only religion which is full of intolerant idealism, radical Islam is also a prime example.

I have breifly applied the above quotation to general historical and modern examples, but it could be applied in everyday life just as easily. I implore the reader to be mindful of intolerant idealism in themselves and in their environment for it is the individual small intolerant idealism that grows into the type which can turn into the large scale general intolerance which we have seen in history and in todays world.