I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.
Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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