I am amazed by how few people seem to know what happened even twenty years ago, let alone two thousand or twenty thousand years ago. If we don't know the past, we are doomed to repeat it, and frankly we can't afford to keep screwing up. I actually know people who don't give a fig about the planet or the future...they won't be here, so so what. I find that attitude appalling but widespread. Everything is okay so long as you get yours, etc.
A lot of people are lost spiritually and I think it may be because we've forgotten how to connect with ourselves and each other. If you aren't interesed in the past or the future, then you are denying yourself and essential connection; you're closing off a fundamental aspect of what it is to be human. We are individuals, but we cannot exist solely as individuals. We have to connect to be whole. Just wondering what others think about the present state of humanity, and how it bears on a lack of connection to history. good day!
2006-09-02
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