Tuesday, July 27, 2010
History for the Modern World
It has been said that history repeats itself yet it appears that our American culture is more interested in the latest celebrity meltdown then it is in studying the past. The question that I put before you is quite simple. In our modern era, is there any relevance to the study of history? Please explain your answer.
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As you say yourself in your post, "history repeats itself" therefore there is relevance to the study of history. Also I believe we can learn from the past and learn from mistakes so studying history is very beneficial to our modern era! Love your page :)
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that you can understand the world around us if you don't study history. If you don't know what happened in the past how can you expect to undertand or know the present. History does repeat itself, but it evolves and we must have the skills and knowledge to evolve with it.
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it, history has a major relevance that is often over looked. History's major purpose in the modern era should be to smack some sense into our narcissistic nation about real priorities. Rather than caring about what pill Lindsey Lohan hasn't taken yet maybe we should care about the major component that is preventing us from being the great nation we use to be, work ethic.
ReplyDeleteHistory does repeat itself. We are seeing that live daily in this country in the most frightening ways. The problem is we do not seem to learn from the past. One thing I wish I knew about history is more about how my grand parents and great grandparents survived the great depression.
ReplyDeleteMy first comment was really long, but it did not post and I do not want to type it over.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Americans tend not to care about history, but I'm not sure this feeling will change any time soon.
The video was great. With that said, it targeted an American audience by showing our great triumphs and blatantly striking at our emotion. Imagery from wars is a great way to go about this. By doing this it reveals the limits of history. Many individuals struggle to break out of the boundaries created by their nations historical narrative. The way we remember history is influenced by the environment we grew up in and unfortunately this is not always correct.
to be honest, the history repeating itself is the easy answer. It's totally true. When we understand the past, we act differently and often for the better.
ReplyDeleteNow will be the future... now. Our future is built on our past, no knowledge of the past errodes an important foundation of understanding. Change can only take place after realization, if we choose to discount the past we undermine the importance of our own belief systems, cultural structure, mores, political reasonings. History most definately matters if one is intersted in their identity within the construct of time. Teens have a hard time grasping time as being "linear", the whole invinseability thing, history to them may be much more immediate perhaps...
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