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Underground eXperts United
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[ A Reason Why We Do Not Learn From History ] [ By The GNN ]
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A REASON WHY WE DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY
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by THE GNN/DCS/uXu
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Imagine that mankind will suffer a great human disaster in a not very
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remote future. Also suppose that this disaster is caused by a group of
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people, who wanted to do good, but failed big time; perhaps due to lack of
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knowledge, inability to foresee consequences, lack of introspection, an
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exaggerated belief that everything they saw in front of their own eyes was
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everything there were, and equal, and so on.
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During the peak of the disaster these people will naturally be described
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as monsters. After all, they are de facto the ones responsible to for the
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misery. No one will be interested in (and rightly so) debating questions
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like "are these people really bad?" because the acute subject on the agenda
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is to get the disaster to an immediate end.
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But later, when things have cooled down, what ought we do? Ought we
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still describe them as pure evil-doers, monsters, devils?
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If we want to learn from history, we ought not. Because the descriptions
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will not be true.
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But if we do not want to learn anything, we ought; we should paint them
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in the darkest colors we can find, so that the difference between black and
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white will be indisputable to all.
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Unfortunately, the latter is what is always done. History, as we learn
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it, consist of good people - and evil people, end of story. We are told to
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analyze the evil people, so that we will be able to spot and stop them if
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they appear again in some other disguise. But, no matter how many times we
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are told this, the same (but not identical, of course) disasters strikes
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us, over and over again.
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Why do we not learn from history? The answer has already been stated: we
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do it because we are not told the entire truth. Yes, the core of the
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historical education is true: the events that we are told really happened.
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But when demands of explanations why those events happened, the truth is
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suppressed in favor of exaggerations and simplifications.
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The point of learning from history is that old mistakes will not be
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repeated. But by not telling the whole truth of what has been, painting all
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the little entities that makes up the complex whole with rough brush
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strokes, mistakes are deemed to be repeated. We will walk the streets and
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look for truly amoral people who want to do bad.
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But there are no, and have never been, such people. There has always
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been people who wanted to do good, but failed big time; perhaps due to lack
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of knowledge, inability to foresee consequences, lack of introspection, an
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exaggerated belief that everything they saw in front of their own eyes was
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everything there were. But we do keep an eye on those people. Instead, we
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might even vote for them, believing that we have done the right thing.
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So, once again, while we with the best intentions are searching for
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ghosts, mankind will suffer yet another disaster. And as usual, we will
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wonder how it could happen. Do we never learn? we will ask ourselves, and
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the answer will be no. Not yet.
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uXu #506 Underground eXperts United 1999 uXu #506
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ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/texts/uxu/
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