was reading about a time when the gov. general of australia william dean went to a remote aboriginal station in the NT and apologized for the deaths of aboriginal peoples at the hands of whites. strangely the event did not occur, it was a fabrication that has been disproved. however when GG was told he said it didn't matter.
but it does.
It matters if one invests any belief in history, personally i say forget history, it's really not important unless you are willing to learn from it, make you're own history but don't try to sell it to me, i don't believe ya.
things i learnt from history
never mix tequila with milk
don't travel with stupid people
never take the english channel ferry with english football supporters high on beer
most humans are dumb animals
it repeats itself to the point of tedium
all political revolutionaries and leaders start with good intentions and end up second rate dictators
the earth will take care of everything
some memes are better than others
Okay, well enough of that.
1 comment:
cool. attacking history will brings the crowds back.
my input is 2 things;
1)history is only created to put the present into some perspective. this process is essentially post-propaganda employed to explain away the uncomfortable aspects of the here and now.
2)the only consistency humanity seems to have is a complete inability to learn from history. this is because history is INVENTED by projecting wishes for the future upon the blank notion of a past. ("i want x in the future so i will project y onto the blank of my past").
the only thing we have to learn from making up selective histories is the seemingly elusive potential of making up selective futures. you think itd be simple. but no. monkey flesh is too addicted to the narcotic cosiness of an "i couldnt help it" past.
just imagine everybody knew the past was a matrix of fabrications hacked together to make the future appear anything but chaos.
see here, making a future is a matter of not believing the past but seeing the underlying structure of time/chaos/potentiality minus the illusion of 'history' (the blank past), and projecting some new idea onto it.
the only certainty is that tommorrow will not be like today. until we need it to be so.
dig. (i like communicating with you thru the window of your blog. its kinda like when we have purposefully mindbending conversations just to perplex eavesdroppers)
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