Changing World Today: Past Lessons not Learned
It is said that “history does often repeat itself”.
Back in the early 2000’s, while campaigning for Idaho State Senate, I had the opportunity to meet a Jewish Holocaust Survivor, recognizing her number tattooed on her arm. I felt personally ashamed and ashamed for humanity. She explained that I shouldn’t because I had nothing to do with it and that happened before I was even born. However, I still felt ashamed because it seems humanity has still not learned its lesson.
I contend this could be said to be a predictable reaction of the macro from the micro. I mention this because of the repeated cycle of circumstances and beliefs being outwardly professed in the world right now. Many of the same conditions, beliefs, and attitudes that are present in the world today are very similar to those that ultimately led to World War Two. But unlike the past, these current alliances and sympathies are not as easily defined by national borders as they once were in the past. This was mentioned in my previous writing entitled “Coalitions and Alliances Crossing Over Borders in our New World”. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCnxY9Z5714 ] Along with this and technologies that are available to the common person today, along with the fact that human society, in general, has not outgrown their ‘mob mentality’, it makes it even more scary and dangerous.
It is not the chaos and destruction that I primarily fear, it is the aftermath, if we survive. So, other than a potential extinction level event, it is another dark age that I fear, as I have said before in my previous writing “A New Dark Age” [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0MXlyUWR7I ] I fear if we have another “Dark Age” what will our 'starting over point' be? Sure, there are those few that think starting over and rejecting certain things in our modern society would not be such a bad idea. My question to that is at what point in the past should we revert to. Everyone has their own ideas about what is ‘good and bad’. Also, who is to say when history finally gets around to repeating itself, will the next ‘test’ be one that we will fail even more horribly. We tend not to learn from our lessons, even when we manage to remember our history.
My hope is that there is the primitive human instinct, potential, or drive to leave something behind for ourselves, or others, after we shuffle off our mortal coil. Is there a primitive instinct in most of us to live on, whether through some form of non-corporeal immortality or history? Also, there is the search for our own immortality, a more sophisticated drive (that is found in many), that pushes us forward to pass along, whatever that may be. Whether it is through leaving a family, leaving a legacy, or creating/contributing to something that we will hope, that will live beyond ourselves, most attempt to leave something behind. There is a primitive part of us that wants to pass along knowledge, legacy, family, children, genes, contributions, et cetera. Having children, wanting to achieve fame, fortune, some other form of acknowledgement by society, knowledge, contributing to monuments (physical or nonphysical), some other form of contribution, or being remembered in some form or area of history, are all signs of these in my opinion.
To counterbalance our destructive human nature there is a primitive part of us to seek out or inspire more favorable opportunities or conditions. Even a child will create something or carve into a tree or desk in the hope that they will be remembered. They hope that it will be seen sometime in the future, even if the concepts of time frames are not completely understood by the child. The search for our own immortality, even if we may not realize it, can be an underlying drive and motivation. Societies or the individual attempting to leave a mark on history, whether it is embedded in the human condition of the individual or the society, shows the predictability of hope.
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1 年You make solid points. I myself have been praying a lot for peace. We have lots of leaders now who seem far more concerned with their power and lining their pockets than peace and the future of humanity!
President and CEO of The Magpie Mines Inc., co-founder of Fancamp Exploration Ltd.
1 年Yes.