"... On Jul 9, 7:05 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> My problem with history is that almost no one seems to know any of > it. There are plenty of Oxbridge and Ivy Leaguers about who can > blather on, essentially telling the same old tales of empire heroics > but no one seems to confront the obvious parochial perversions. It's > as though we don't want to know. I think it's all to do with habit- > forming rather than thinking that most people can do. Aye archy. That be true in spades. But it's what we've got and we have to play the hand we're dealt in that realm. Just as I see the human race as possibly just emerging from adolescence and coming into young adulthood, so it is with our self awareness and self knowledge. We are just beginning to know some of the truth and realities of ourselves. Heretofore we have lived our lives in lies -- a feat which always amazes me -- that someone can make it from birth to death without ever glimpsing reality. Or having a shred of humanity for that matter. Future history looks a bit rosier than our past in that most everything is well documented these days and archives are redundant. Future generations will be able to dispassionately unravel present day history much closer to its reality than we are able to unfold even our own immediate past. The habits that are formed can all be traced to fear, I think. But then I tend to think of human history in terms of how we've reacted to fear.
