After Three Major Documentaries About War, What Has Ken Burns Learned? 'Human Nature Doesn't Change'

"Whatever arrogance you have - is the past lesser or greater? It's all the same. And loss is loss is loss. And so wars are united, because they are big loss machines. They drive families apart and then some people don't come home. ... And that's why they're so instructive, because they remind us again and again of the worst of us. And we hope in some ways that by studying it you might mitigate it, but it won't. There will always be wars and everybody feels it the same." (podcast plus transcript)

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