Learning

“How much of our lives will we have to spend learning what has already been done before? We learn about all these discoveries of other people with no time left to do it ourselves. Do they do it on purpose to keep things the same as progress is not beneficial to the people in power? When people lived in caves all they probably had to do to catch up the younger generation was that predators were bad and how to make fire. In the future will we truncate our history and subsequently our whole lives to a book? Then that book becomes a chapter and then to a paragraph and then to a sentence? How much of history actually matters for how we function to knowing how to prepare our food and get around? The way it’s told might be more of a way of societal structuring. Why does it matter that men are credited with inventions that are centuries old? Doesn’t that poison the collective group by including a narrative that one people is better than another? There should be history, but some of the specifics should be left out as we do not want any repeats of something we are trying to move away from.”