“At no period of history did men so little grasp the present, so greatly ignore the past, and so poorly divine the future.”*
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*Le Bon, Gustave. The Psychology of Revolution (p. 11). Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (French: ... 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath [a person of encyclopedic learning] whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon