You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being-and fair enough. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. It’s partly … unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?” It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Freud called this a “repetition compulsion.” He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past-sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, sometimes to attempt more active mastery and sometimes, perhaps, because no alternatives beckon. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better-so they don’t go looking for it. “Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth-or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives-they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past.
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