“Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today. We are not able to make connections between current and past events until we have some distance from both.”
The issue of the importance and relevance of the past in shaping current or future events is a rather controversial one. While some may argue that the knowledge of past events is of no help to people in making decisions and thus altering the future, others, on the other hand, believe that past, present and future form a continuum and it is impossible to understand the present and make accurate predictions about the future without first going through what has happened in the past.
I personally share this latter point of view and in the following essay I shall proceed to offer relevant...
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