"Unfortunately..."

“They say if you don't know your history, you're 

doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, most Americans 

can't even figure out what's going on in the present.”

- Thor Benson

“All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.”

- Iris Murdoch, "The Black Prince"

And they don't care or want to know...