[ffhhttt]

Yes but a quite often when you don’t actually understand what you’re looking at those patterns and analogies end up being imaginary.

[coldtea]

I think a much larger problem is that most people are not looking at the past at all, and know very little about it except what they've seen in some movie or, at best, some documentary. Rather than people making distorted analogies based on a less than functional understanding of it.