It has been my personal experience that arrogance is more often than not caused by a lack of knowledge rather than an excess of it.

That is especially true when it pertains to an ignorance of history.

History is like gravity – whether you understand it, believe it exists or think it doesn’t apply to you, it does. History affects and effects everyone and everything.

Imagine you are tasked to solve a murder, but you were prevented from asking any questions about the victim – who they knew, where the worked, who was their family, where they lived, with whom they associated, and the financial situation of the victim were all off limits. You were blocked from asking about the area where the murder happened, where the murder weapon might have come from and if the victim had any enemies.

You had to begin with what was present at the murder scene and move forward in time, never asking about anything that happened or existed before you arrived at the scene.

That is going to be an impossible task. Even if someone comes to you and witnessed or admits to the murder, there is no way you can confirm if they are telling the truth.

That is what it is like when you are ignorant of history.

Imagine now that you are dealing with people who know nothing about what happened before they existed, and they only know what they have personally experienced since they arrived on the planet (a large majority of those under age 40 fit this description). Imagine there are "historians” out there like Howard Zinn, Michael Mann, Nikole Hannah-Jones or Ibram X. Kendi (the latter three claim not to be historians but sell a version of history they prefer).

Using my analogy of solving a murder without knowing the past, now make the crime oppression, causing global warming or racism and assume the aforementioned people come to you and claim to be witnesses to these "crimes”. Absent a knowledge of history, there is no possible way to know if they are telling the truth.

Climate "change” is perhaps the greatest scam that preys on the historically ignorant. Michael Mann selected a period of around 150 years to prove that anthropogenic climate change is responsible for every weather event from droughts to floods, from too much snow to too little.

We know the climate changes; it has always changed. What most climateers refuse to recognize that a period of 150, even 1500 years, in terms of the life of the planet is equivalent to the tick of the second hand on your IWC Portuguese Perpetual Calendar Automatic watch.

Just how many life decisions do you currently make based on information contained within that one second tick?

My guess is that number approaches zero.

You are going to want a few minutes, an hour, a day, a month, a year or even several years of history before you make a deliberative decision because a one second interval is just too little time and too little information.

It should surprise no one that public policy based on anything the historically ignorant profess is doomed to failure.

My history includes a quote from the Bare Naked Ladies, "It’s all been done before…”

While many politicians and "thinkers” invent absurdist views on contemporary situations and claim they are "unprecedented” , new age solutions never resolve age old problems.

We know the answers to our issues. We know ignoring the centuries of historical wisdom of Bastiat, Burke, Smith and Locke and replacing them with Howard Zinn, Black Lives Matter, Noam Chomsky and the pronouncements of Mumbles the Cognitively Impaired Presidential Clown isn’t the way to go.

Modern "philosophers” seem to be more interested in creating a history that fits their philosophies than measuring their ideas against actual history and the results that history produced.

Modern "thinkers” no longer think, they emote, the speak loudly to convince you of their superior intellect and prevent you from looking too closely.

Their arrogance is rooted in ignorance rather than knowledge.

We all have the tools to break the stranglehold of the ignorant elite. History is not the exclusive possession of any person, class, or organization. The collection of history is the greatest example of crowd sourcing in the history of mankind.

A good friend once gave me a print captioned, "The irony is this – if you don’t go in, you can’t find out.”

Remember: it’s all been done before.

That’s why we call it "history”.