Applying Lessons of History Helps a Nation to Avoid Past Mistakes: Founder of The Sons of History A nation should learn from all the good and bad experiences of its ancestors and from other nations’ histories to avoid making the same mistakes that others did, said Dustin Bass, founder of The Sons of History. People have human nature, and what happened 10, 100, or 1,000 years ago can and still happens today because people have the same emotions and tendencies they’ve always had, the founders explained on the organization’s website. If people get rid of their history, get rid of all lessons—wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of their ancestors—they will have to rely on the guiding hand of a few individuals in the government who promised to protect and take care of the rest–and it is dangerous, Bass said on Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.