2 A Little History

Ancient cultures devoted much time and effort to teaching their children family history. It was thought that the past helps a child understand who he is. Modern society, however, has turned its back on the past. We live in a time of rapid change, a time of progress. We prefer to define ourselves in terms of where we are going, not where we come from. Our ancestors hold no importance for us. They lived in times so different from our own that they are incapable of shedding light on our experience. Man is so much smarter now than he was even ten years ago that anything from the past is outdated and irrelevant to us. Therefore, the past, even the relatively recent past, is, in the minds of most of us, enshrouded by mists and only very vaguely perceived. Our ignorance of the past is not the result of a lack of information, but of indifference. We do not believe that history matters.

History is an opening into the past that provides understanding of the Modern Era and how individuals, nations, and the global community might develop in the future. Historical study instructs how societies came to be and examines cultural, political, social, and economic influences across time and space. It also builds the personal understanding of how we as individuals are the sum of a vast range of experience and actors ourselves in the process of historical change. In short, the study of the past helps lead to greater personal insight and comprehension of each person's place in the grand sweep of the human story.

History itself is the prove of how deep the influence of 'Free Will' is. Have you heard of the Ripple or Butterfly Effect?

The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon. Of course, a single act like the butterfly flapping its wings cannot cause a typhoon. While a ripple effect is a situation in which one event produces effects, which spread and produce further effects.

Basically, when an individual makes a choice it affects not only him but friends, Family, Relatives and those around him the time of decision. For Example, The Bread earner of a Family stops working, does this decision only affect him? Your Neighbor Next door was murdered, can you still sleep at night? Taxes have increased, Your Country goes to war? The Rich become poor and the poor becomes Rich.

In the history of the United States and Europe, wars have ended with confiscatory terms of government surrender inevitably breeding more wars. Revolutions, like those in France and Russia, that gave an individual absolute power—Napoleon and Stalin, respectively—inevitably end up as failed empires brutal dictatorships. Even individuals are subject to this advice. Couples who do not learn from their fights break up. People who don't learn from their mistakes don't mature.

Everything has changed in the blink of an Eye. Do you now understand how deep of an impact individual Choices have on our way of Life?

That is Why the Study of History is Important because it is driven by human nature.

So, is that the case?

After repeated 19th century wars between Germany and France, France still demanded that confiscatory terms of surrender be imposed on Germany after the 20th century's First World War. Then the Second World War happened.

After failing to invest in education and infrastructure in Afghanistan after arming the Mujahidin against the invading Soviet Union in the 80's, America neglected to make the same investments after later Middle Eastern military campaigns. Then rose The Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The Way People Organize themselves, their daily routines, The Actions and decisions they make, are simply going to breed patterns as we continue to make history as a species. It may be that we are simply given to a certain irrationality which leads us down certain paths that prove to be disastrous, again and again.

'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'

But, it doesn't really have any power. Why? History shows that both those who do not learn history and those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it. If it's also true that those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it, then the saying doesn't really add anything at all.

History is mostly covered in Lies and deceit. The Truth is there but shattered in so many small fragments that it is impossible to recover.

The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.

Which is totally Incorrect.

Mankind has went through multiple 'Dark Ages' throughout History. When Man first came in to being he did not know how to Read or Write. Thus, the passing of information from person to person was done through oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day. With the passage of time most of the history was either forgotten or mutilated beyond recognition.

When Empires Waged Wars against each other they destroyed everything related to the Overpowered kingdom therefore more loss of Culture and Heritage. The Tribal Leaders, Kings, Emperors, Dictators, Governments Destroyed What they didn't want you to know.

In 1917 the Communists took control of Russia. They began to exercise control over how the history of their country ought to be told. They portrayed the tsar as oppressive and cruel. The leaders of the revolution, on the other hand, were portrayed in a very positive light. The Communist government asserted that these leaders, and in particular Lenin, understood more clearly than everyone else what Russia needed and what course of action the government ought to follow.

According to the official history, Lenin made no errors and he passed his virtually infallible understanding on to the other leaders of the gathering. The official history presented Lenin and Stalin as caring, sympathetic, intelligent, nearly divine leaders. Therefore, problems that people in the Soviet Union experienced were all attributable to capitalism. The nation's economic backwardness, the need for a massive military and tight security, and domestic crime were all ultimately tied to the influence of capitalistic countries. This is the outlook of history that was educated to Soviet children for half a century.

In the seventies and eighties, numerous things transpired to shake people's confidence in this view of history. One was the publication of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. He questioned scores of inmates and did widespread investigation to record the origin and growth of the chain of labor camps that scattered the Soviet Union. His book described the cruelty and injustice of the system in detail; but most important of all, he was able to show that Lenin and Stalin were active and knowing participants in the formation of this brutal institution.

Solzhenitsyn's depiction of these leaders was incompatible with the official history. And if the official history was wrong, the legitimacy and justification for Soviet rule was all brought into question. In 1979, a Soviet refugee stated, "The impact of this book will be far more devastating to Soviet power than an atomic bomb." The Soviet Union disintegrated because people began to doubt the official history.

History Often Repeats doesn't mean that man does not learn from history relatively what they learn is False in the first place. Truth is a Bitter Fruit to Swallow therefore the Sugariness of Lies is preferable.