A person is a reflection of their culture, of what they believe and how they live their lives. A bridge between the past and the future, between time and space and needs to try to keep them in harmony, less they become unbalanced. Not to be aware of the past and give it due consideration in the building of the future can distort the future. Neither is it wise to sacrifice your future because you choose to live in or as if you are in the past. One World One Human Race One Destiny (OWOHROD)
Sunday, 12 February 2017
MORE THAN JUST A THOUGHT - HISTORY CAN BE WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE! PART 1.
Whether we are speaking from a historical, anthropological or sociological perspective, it would be quite logical for any of us to argue that we are currently the product of our history and our present.
Similarly, for many of us humans, that 'product' would be of less value and satisfaction, if we could not add another vital ingredient to to the combination of the past and the present; namely that of 'future aspiration.'
Because, just as how our cogitation of the past, of history and present has given rise to who we are, in the present of now, so do we aspire to be taken from this perceptual realm, to that of the future which we aspire towards.
A person living with a 'child-like' perceptual vision of history- which is what the past, history has to be, unless we were there to share and experience it - might not be able or capable of transcending the imagery which the past is made up, and to equip him/herself to reach into the future to create a better state or place, as it were.
This is because of our tendency to probably recreate the past into the present and the future, but with the emphasis being on making the 'future into the past or history', and more to our liking.
Compare with the concept of 'making us great again', and its emphasis on what has been 'lost' or in the past, instead of the building of a new future.
To remove from it the things with which we do not agree, that we find painful and hurtful, sometimes not because they really hurt us directly, but do so vicariously, as we 'try to imagine and experience what be imagined the people of the past to have felt and experienced.'
We have 'false memories', as it were, of history. We see or imagine the pain and suffering which our ancestors or forebears have had to endure, and yearn, if for a moment, to give them relief.
To right the wrongs which we believed had been done to them, by their contemporaries. But, of course that is not possible, with them and their oppressors being now dead, and existing no more, except as ghosts who live within those of us who choose to, or have been socialised into hosting the memories of them.
Making us pseudo-them and taking on their now cosmically dispersed pain. And doing so, many of us would argue, needlessly, as it cannot give rise to hope but only further pain.
To be continued.
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