Comic #3935: condemned

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Panel 1: "There's this George Santayana quote: 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'" "Yeah."

Panel 2: "But if you actually read the book, you only have to look at the previous sentence to realize that it doesn't mean what everyone thinks it means." "…When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Panel 3: "Huh. So it's actually a point about 'savages' without historical records." "Right. It's not about people today who don't read enough."

Panel 4: "But that means…" "People who don't know the past of that quote are condemned to repeat it incorrectly."

Panel 5: "Though, in fairness, its history has no bearing on whether the shortened quote is valid." "I don't want to understand the world. I just want to be right."

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