{"id":1684,"date":"2025-01-20T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:50:18","slug":"history-doesnt-repeat-itself-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/history-doesnt-repeat-itself-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"History Doesn&#8217;t Repeat Itself, You Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I&#8217;ve tried writing something about the cognitive dissonance today being both the presidential inauguration <em>and<\/em> MLK Jr. day is causing me several times. I started aiming to say something profound, when that didn&#8217;t work I tried to say something constructive, and when I couldn&#8217;t manage to even say anything coherent I gave up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I couldn&#8217;t think of anything new to say, I&#8217;ll just repeat myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-missives-from-the-6th-floor wp-block-embed-missives-from-the-6th-floor\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OyEwHgNaZf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/13\/democracy-is-coming\/\">Democracy is Coming<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Democracy is Coming&#8221; &#8212; Missives from the 6th Floor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/13\/democracy-is-coming\/embed\/#?secret=anbe63biCy#?secret=OyEwHgNaZf\" data-secret=\"OyEwHgNaZf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-missives-from-the-6th-floor wp-block-embed-missives-from-the-6th-floor\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2X9b3IcECF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/10\/fragile-mores\/\">Fragile Mores<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Fragile Mores&#8221; &#8212; Missives from the 6th Floor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/10\/fragile-mores\/embed\/#?secret=zvudFIyfGv#?secret=2X9b3IcECF\" data-secret=\"2X9b3IcECF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-missives-from-the-6th-floor wp-block-embed-missives-from-the-6th-floor\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7ZGdu34PJC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/09\/tired-of-being-angry\/\">Tired of Being Angry<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Tired of Being Angry&#8221; &#8212; Missives from the 6th Floor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/09\/tired-of-being-angry\/embed\/#?secret=wojbJiFLYu#?secret=7ZGdu34PJC\" data-secret=\"7ZGdu34PJC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried writing something about the cognitive dissonance today being both the presidential inauguration and MLK Jr. day is causing me several times. I started aiming to say something profound, when that didn&#8217;t work I tried to say something constructive, and when I couldn&#8217;t manage to even say anything coherent I gave up. Since I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/history-doesnt-repeat-itself-you-say\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History Doesn&#8217;t Repeat Itself, You Say?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}