"Talking honestly about these past choices is the only way to clear the air and open us up for “deshitification” of software’s next steps"
Timothy snyder: I want to start the answer by saying that it's important to think about history or something that opens us up rather than closes us down the danger of thinking about history in terms of analogy or repeating or even rhyming as Mark Twain said is that then puts you out of the story and the whole point of history is that humans are in the story there isn't any overwhelming objective Factor which means things have to go in a certain Direction.