Here we go again.

You know that saying that goes something like "people need to learn their history so they won't be doomed to repeat it?" Or some other varation of it that basically states that we all need to learn past events to make sure it doesn't happen again. An example of something dreadful that happend in the past that we should make sure never happens again: the Holocaust. 

While we need to know our past to keep us from repeating the same mistakes, what about not correcting the problem? I mean you know the history of the Holocaust, yet there is still genocide going on in the world (a.k.a. Darfur). Yet, there isn't a lot of media attention about it. Many people don't really know the story concerning it and therefore not a lot is being done to correct it.

Ok, now I'm getting off topic. My point really isn't about the Holocaust or genocide, but in fact about people who know the history of a problem, but never really do anything about it. And so the problem still continues. So, just because you know the history and know that it was wrong isn't enough to not be doomed to repeat it. It takes more than that. It takes actually doing something to correct it.