History is not an educative process

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” A quote from Things To Come – the 1936 film of the book by H.G. Wells, which I watched on DVD last night.
    “I want to make victorious peace,” says the Boss Man in a pre-echo of Putin the Poisoner.
    And then we have the selfish bastard tendency yelling. “Stop this progress before it is too late!” just before the comic opera giant space gun is fired.
    Nothing much ever changes.