Browning's Duchess

When did we forget to remember our history and try to move on to a better and more productive future? We went from Europe's aristocracy killing and rapping anyone beneath them without consequences to mafias of every ilk and governments starting wars that benfit no one. We yet to evolve beyond they caveman mentality. Browning's poem of the Duchess only goes to show us that things are still on the road to destruction through ignorant and power hungry poeple.