Let me put it the other way.

We make history.
We write history.
We read the history we wrote about the things we’ve done.

Then we keep ruminating about what we (don’t) learn from and about history…

Are we nuts?

But is there anything to be learned from history?

Yep!
What happens when we fail to learn from the mistakes which keep shouting at us from the history books our ancestors had written for us. Had written to warn us…