The value of history and the principles that shaped human social evolution

ThazzarBaal

ThazzarBaal

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We have all the philosophers of the ages, the great and revered scientist who contributed heart and soul their discoveries with a unsuspecting world. We have word religions, czars and dictators, presidents and generals, and the commoner who stumbled on a field somewhere in the mountains who made millions on the oil he discovered, who after which packed up the family and moved to Beverly Hills.

Is any of this important enough to preserve, or is it all irrelevant like some view long math? How about the written word and penmanship?
 
ThazzarBaal said:
We have all the philosophers of the ages, the great and revered scientist who contributed heart and soul their discoveries with a unsuspecting world. We have word religions, czars and dictators, presidents and generals, and the commoner who stumbled on a field somewhere in the mountains who made millions on the oil he discovered, who after which packed up the family and moved to Beverly Hills.

Is any of this important enough to preserve, or is it all irrelevant like some view long math? How about the written word and penmanship?
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Only as important as what you can learn from it, so that the negativity in history does not repeat.
 
Social evolution? I doubt that that phrase makes sense.

I open the book of Plutarch and reading about Lycurgus (7th Century BC). A king of his kind.

His reforms were like living in paradise, people taught to share their goods with the rest, this is to say, no poverty but encouraging work and decency at all levels. He didn't even write any of his laws but were given thru training and habit. He focused on children's education, and even like preventing the changes of economy, what was rules for business, contracts, etc. weren't subjected to rigid laws but to be adaptable to the circumstances.

Many, many things that even when today, some thousands years later, we try to accomplish, our society is so corrupt that the major leaders are the worst example to follow.

We don't learn anything from the past, each generation enjoys its own evil. And we still are degenerating, but covering our degradation with silence, hypocrisy, changing the TV channel to see only what we want to see.

If we are lucky to find decent people, that is a plus, but society in general is not to be trusted.

Each generation learns the proper way, making and fixing their own mistakes, looking at the past is simply collecting dust.
 
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