The value of history

[bluestreak]

Well of course people are going to be selective.. its just more informed than blind prejudice and ignorance.

What d'you prefer - someone with an awareness of history.. or some guy (with all the answers) who's just landed from Mars?

woah there sunshine, i never made any sort of suggestion that this wasn't normal or acceptable, just that it happens.

 

[Hollis]

to be fair, i think that people will only learn from history what they want to learn. like on each and every subject we'll selectively use chunks to support our own prejudged opinions whilst ignoring everything that doesn't fit into the viewpoint. and why should it be any other way, we can't possibly know everything that happened, every context, every knock-on effect, every minor triviality that knots the coils of the slinky of history.

And that's still where you've got it wrong.

 

[rhys gethin]

At least "Lord Acton's" short and handy.
Try being Viscount Tonypandy.

The bugger once proposed to an aunt of mine, apparently, as part of his closet-building. Once I wrote:

'George Thomas is a sod:
his inflexions are odd -
a rat in a cellar
deciding he's God'.

The great thing about history is that it shows that things were not always like THIS, and what looked so safe and sure THEN went down the bog with all the rest.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

If someone had indeed just landed from Mars, I'd listen quite carefully to what they had to say.

 

[Balbi]

History is everything

 

[The Black Hand]

History is everything

True, every issue/subject/idea has its own history, and that is why history will continue to be important. Didn't somebody say that 'those who control the past control the future'?

 

[Balbi]

True, every issue/subject/idea has its own history, and that is why history will continue to be important. Didn't somebody say that 'those who control the past control the future'?

Zack De La Rocha of RATM for starters

 

[Roadkill]

Pretty much every time you wonder why something is the way it is, you're looking to history for an answer.

Therein lies its value.

 

[The Black Hand]

Pretty much every time you wonder why something is the way it is, you're looking to history for an answer.

Therein lies its value.

Well said...