We learn the bulk of our history through the writings of historians. We take them at face value and accept them as accurate accounts with facts to back them up. What we don't always know are the influence the writers faced and if conditions were set to include and exclude certain fact and occurrences.
We also know that people in positions of power will omit, exclude, exaggerate, and even fabricate events if it benefits them.
Question:
How do we prevent repeating mistakes of the past if we can't be sure we have accurate accounts of them?
How can we prepare future generations when we can see the attempts at re-writing history?
How do we avoid future conflicts based on false information?
Stop indoctrinating children. Teach them how to read, write and arithmetic (the classic 3 "R's" ) then introduce them to the arts and let them play. Give them the ability to research what interests them in the future.
It's an age old question, how to remove the yolk of culture and history to create meaningful change. It's worth giving a generation a no yolk start in life to perhaps work out a better future for themselves. Our consumer capitalist society leaves too many behind, is environmentally unsustainable and radical change is needed. The consumer culture needs to collapse to be replaced with a sustainable culture. The economy should be used as a measure of society, not the driving factor of it.
So talking generational change, revolutionary change. Hopefully this generation can do it without violence but going on the history taught us, revolutionary societal change does not often happen without violence; Ghandi/ India being an exception.
The refrain "grow the economy" means buy buy buy more. That also means more & more waste. It is unsustainable.