Living In The Past, Part II

...Even those who see ‘the future,’ will see it in past terms, since the past is the reference from which all mankind must learn. That grand, utopian future of which so many dream, is defined by what it escapes: a past brutal and mean. It’s shaped by what it doesn’t have, compared to ages gone, a vision based on past eras stripped of all that went wrong. And the sad thing of such visions, I think it must be said, is how quickly the all look stale, how soon they look dated. Look back on all the old scifi from back in the fifties, the future they imagined them now seems quaint history. It all seems such a waste of time, trying to think like that, much better to just see the truth and lessons from the past. The endless wisdom that was gleaned, just waiting to be used, and half the time we learn from it we create something new. Remember that the Renaissance was folks looking at Greece, thinking that they could learn from it, soon after culture peaked. Remember the Founding Fathers we’re looking back at Rome, a republic, no need for king, from that so much has grown. The truth is undeniable, so long as we may last, every single human alive is living in the past.