You’ve probably heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment, if you’ve an interest in human behaviour that is… Here’s an article published in the March issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education where the creator of that experiment Philip G. Zimbardo talks about how we’re not learning from the mistakes we’ve made and the current relevance of his research to some of the abuses in Iraq. What’s that phrase, ‘if we don’t learn from our mistakes we’re doomed to repeat them’. See: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=jwbxNygnt4HdpKkRmXbvrhmTJPqRVmJ3
By contrast here’s an article by Stephen Pinker that talks about the fact that we have learnt from our mistakes, that we’re getting less violent, more nobler. See: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html
Just a suggestion, we can learn from the past, and by putting our attention on what does work allows us to get more of that.
Oh, and Happy Easter 
