[Laiedheliel]

Ha ha HA! Finally a stimulating topic that ties in with both ME and real life. Ah, me, I've died and gone to the Downs version of Heaven, even if some of the statements here are depressing.

I am forced to agree with those who posted above: Since the dawn of time man has failed to realized his greatest mistake-not learning from the mistakes he's already made. Time has gone on, civilization has evolved quite rapidly, and with all of the new discoveries and knowledge around him, he has not noticed his own halt in evolution. We do not grow because we do not learn. We choose today not to learn anything beyond daily nesseccities (sp?); and I am also forced to agree with Joy, we Americans have begun to lack not only in history but in virtually all acadimcic subjects. But you can always count on us, it seems, for a dirty joke.

Point being this time, folks, is that human nature is not inclined to look backwards, as is vividly shown by all that have come before us and even those around us, but forwards, and discriminately at that. We look forward to tomorrow, but not the day after, another mistake we should have learned from long ago. How many children do you know that care about what happens three weeks from now? Three months? Years? I didn't think so. But as in grammer, one must remember: there are always exceptions to the rule.

As to ignorance being a eternal problem, I have to say "no". To say "yes" to this statement, I would have to lay down some conditions. If ignorance were not brought upon oneself by choice, then I could say "yes", but we must learn from our mistakes above and be more specific. Being aware of our ignorance, even blissfully ignorant, is a modern problem. In the Dark Ages, or even during the Renisance (now I know I spelled that one wrong), we did not know we were ignorant. Kuruharan touched on this when he mentioned illiteracy before education was cheap and widely available (when I say cheap, I'm talking about in non-third world countries, with no disrespect intended). Just recently have we become aware of our ignorance, and frankly, from what I've seen, no one cares. Am I completely off the mark here? If someone cared, we would look to our history, we would learn the skills offered to us instead of turning away in favor of modern trinkets.

Obviously we here have realized this fault, and on a small personal scale we here have begun to fix our problem; but what can we do for the rest of the world? Tee hee, there are too many perpetually stupid people to try to light this fire in all of their minds. But that is not the question at hand. History is. It lives through us, no matter how resistant we are. And every interpretation is different, but all are equally important in their own unique ways: to teach us what to do and what not to, and to tell us what is real and what isn't.

*Reads her post and sighs, again.* O, dear, I've gone and written another book on the subject. Congrats to you if you manage to read and understand this, and thanks again for trying... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]