<blockquote>'..If we want to understand today, we need to know and remember what happened yesterday.'
- 2014 will mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War,
Context</blockquote>
<blockquote>'1913 .. It’s a world linked by a level of globalization not to be matched again until the 1990s..'
- Brian Bethune,
1913: In Search Of The World Before The Great War, July 5, 2013</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Carl Menger [1840-1921] .. His keen intellect had recognized in which direction Austria, Europe, and the world were pointed; he saw this greatest and highest of all civilizations rushing toward the abyss. He had anticipated the atrocities..'
- Ludwig von Mises (Context:
(Global) - To Heal (to prevent, to cushion) - '..Second World War possible, though not inevitable..')</blockquote>
'..the world of 1913 was quite like that of 2013..'<blockquote>'..the world of 1913 was quite like that of 2013: modern, substantially urbanised and, even as Woodrow Wilson set about slashing import tariffs, thriving on global trade .. Yet with that comes a troubling corollary. In the current testing of European unity, the reassertion of the nation state and insecurity engendered by rising powers, the world in 2013 looks a bit discomfitingly like that of 1913.'
- The Economist,
The year before the sky fell in -
The world in 1913 was worryingly similar to the world today, Jun 8th 2013</blockquote>
'..The bloody horrors of the 20th century were not inevitable, he reminds us, and we would do well to remember that when considering our own present and thinking about how we want to shape our future.'<blockquote>'It’s difficult to avoid viewing some of Emmerson’s examples through the lens of the present. In 1913, the Ottoman Empire’s modernization programs led some to wonder whether that failing empire might revitalize itself in subsequent years, but by the end of the Great War, that empire was gone. In 1913, Kaiser Wilhelm stopped the Habsburgs from involving Austro-Hungary in the Balkan war, leading newspapers around the world to declare that history would remember him as a great peacemaker – and yet five years later, he abdicated to the Netherlands as his country descended into revolution. And at the end of 1913, the Economist staunchly predicted that all signs pointed towards peace for the immediate future – an obviously poor prediction.
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..The Great War was truly a global war, and the world of 1913 was truly a global society. In his book, Emmerson gives fair weight to societies around the world rather than presenting the year from a Eurocentric point of view.
Of course, despite all the alternate paths history could have taken, war did tear apart the world in 1914. Emmerson does not touch on the causes of the war in his book, but in his epilogue – perhaps the most compelling part of his narrative – he reminds us of the horrors that the war wrought and calls on us to use the story of 1913 as a cautionary tale. The bloody horrors of the 20th century were not inevitable, he reminds us, and we would do well to remember that when considering our own present and thinking about how we want to shape our future.'
- Emily Cataneo,
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War, June 3, 2013</blockquote>
Context '..there’s too much left unlearned from the Fed’s checkered 100-year history.' - '..made the Second World War possible, though not inevitable..'<blockquote>
'..they will be too big to bail out..''..the wounds inflicted in the course of World War 2 are still festering..' - '..World War possible..' - '..an alarming trend..''..a financial system of the bankers, by the bankers, and for the bankers—consumers and shareholders be damned.' - Hamel'Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning..'(Haptopraxeology) - '..the near entirety of the social science community betrayed humanity .. failed .. to fulfill their vital scientific duty..'