Why do we live in the past?
Our lives revolve around history and this really does stuff up our future. We are caught in a 24hr news cycle, but news merely means new history......all news has already happened, in the past. Diplomacy, sanctions, trade, war.......everything deals in the past.
Will humanity ever break this cycle?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.If we forget past mistakes, we're bound to repeat them. Tribal wisdom is all about retaining lessons learned and passing them from generation to generation.
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Hominid
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June 11, 2019
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Doubtful. The future is unknown and the past is known. Much easier to deal with the known.
Heraclitus
Level 8
June 2, 2019
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@powder Not talking about what is absolutely know. An historical fact is essentially what is agreed upon as a historical fact according to the best sources that we have and alway involves some interpretation. Your question was "Why do we live in the past?". I responded to that question on the basis of human emotion and motivation. If you wish to change the question to an historiographical and epistemological analysis of what is actually known, then I agree with you.
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