Every passing moment creates history and if it is important to learn from history, does that mean every moment be recorded and studied?
I doubt. History repeats, true, so why go on studying repetitive history?
I read somewhere that America could progress because she had no backlog of history, no old stories to bind the feet of Americans, so they could fly, they could dare, they could invent.
I was just watching history channel and was amazed to see they were just showing incidents some 10-20 years old. I just thought foolishly, is this history? Should not they show some 200 or 2000 years old Monarchs, some age-old battles etc?
Coming back to the point that history repeats itself. Mine point is, it is not the history that repeats, it is the human stupidity that repeats.
In my teen age, one of my friends used to say that a cat needs every time a fresh technique to climb a tree. I do not know how much true. But the point he wanted to make seems true to me. Life throws new challenges and old lessons do not work always, rather they obstruct the way of the new solutions.
So, what I see, history is important, as we learn from our individual past, so we can learn from our collective past. But now there are other issues.
In my street, a young women died today, people gathered around her house. I met different people at night. Different people were telling different stories, what happened, why happened. Some were saying that it was a murder, some were saying that it is suicide, some this, some that.
Even a current event is almost impossible to be described accurately, what to say of older incidents.
It is a tiresome and almost impossible job to check and cross check the different versions of some particular old incident. Just a guesswork. Nothing sure.
So where do we stand now?
We have colored opinions, old records that too mostly of mad war mongers, oppressors of the humanity.
I suggest a few things. History be taught to the kids but it should be summarized. The kings and queens and their wars can almost be ignored. A very brief history of these people be taught. What can we learn now if Babar attacked India or how much time Jahangir ruled. Not much important.
History be taught of artists, scientists, saints. This may help, this may create some positive values.
But still I strongly advocate to keep the burden of history very much nominal.
History repeats and no point in studying much of this repetitive history.
Copy Right
I doubt. History repeats, true, so why go on studying repetitive history?
I read somewhere that America could progress because she had no backlog of history, no old stories to bind the feet of Americans, so they could fly, they could dare, they could invent.
I was just watching history channel and was amazed to see they were just showing incidents some 10-20 years old. I just thought foolishly, is this history? Should not they show some 200 or 2000 years old Monarchs, some age-old battles etc?
Coming back to the point that history repeats itself. Mine point is, it is not the history that repeats, it is the human stupidity that repeats.
In my teen age, one of my friends used to say that a cat needs every time a fresh technique to climb a tree. I do not know how much true. But the point he wanted to make seems true to me. Life throws new challenges and old lessons do not work always, rather they obstruct the way of the new solutions.
So, what I see, history is important, as we learn from our individual past, so we can learn from our collective past. But now there are other issues.
In my street, a young women died today, people gathered around her house. I met different people at night. Different people were telling different stories, what happened, why happened. Some were saying that it was a murder, some were saying that it is suicide, some this, some that.
Even a current event is almost impossible to be described accurately, what to say of older incidents.
It is a tiresome and almost impossible job to check and cross check the different versions of some particular old incident. Just a guesswork. Nothing sure.
So where do we stand now?
We have colored opinions, old records that too mostly of mad war mongers, oppressors of the humanity.
I suggest a few things. History be taught to the kids but it should be summarized. The kings and queens and their wars can almost be ignored. A very brief history of these people be taught. What can we learn now if Babar attacked India or how much time Jahangir ruled. Not much important.
History be taught of artists, scientists, saints. This may help, this may create some positive values.
But still I strongly advocate to keep the burden of history very much nominal.
History repeats and no point in studying much of this repetitive history.
Copy Right
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