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Book Review: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud - Peter Watson

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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by   Peter Watson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it. - Jill Lepore Crisis makes radical ideas relevant. Radical ideas inspire social movements. Social movements amplify crisis. In a crisis, shovel-ready ideas can win support quickly.  History is full of deeply flawed  ideas adapted rapidly by civilization and also burial ground of the ideas applied with the best of intentions.  We must look at history and to understand that change never, ever, ever comes about in a brief period. It's the gradual accumulation of knowledge as ideas to historical change that lead to the historical changes. All the  current knowledge has been built on past insights, and a book is devoted for the cause.  Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson, has c...