Perhaps if actual, real history, could be included in the textbooks of our schools, and teachers and their students encouraged to carry on critical thinking conversations about real and actual choices made by nefarious, bigoted, individuals drooling over greed, power, and control of those they deem less than, what an enlightened world we might be. Naïve I suppose, but one can dream. The Gilded Age is alive and well. :/
Amen. That shoe fits. With maybe one variation. Santayana told us we had to remember the lessons of the past in order not to repeat them. Nowadays, we remember the lessons of the past, but we still haven't been committed to using those lessons to make significant changes in the system. Seriously, how are we going to stop this downward spiral of our nation? How are we going to eliminate corruption?
Isn't it amazing....history does repeat itself!
Perhaps if actual, real history, could be included in the textbooks of our schools, and teachers and their students encouraged to carry on critical thinking conversations about real and actual choices made by nefarious, bigoted, individuals drooling over greed, power, and control of those they deem less than, what an enlightened world we might be. Naïve I suppose, but one can dream. The Gilded Age is alive and well. :/
Santayana.
Amen. That shoe fits. With maybe one variation. Santayana told us we had to remember the lessons of the past in order not to repeat them. Nowadays, we remember the lessons of the past, but we still haven't been committed to using those lessons to make significant changes in the system. Seriously, how are we going to stop this downward spiral of our nation? How are we going to eliminate corruption?
I did not know the history behind Santayana. I know some now. :) Many thanks.
Actually, I think it's an old oligarchy chess game plan, that has backup plays whenever it runs into a hitch with it's victims.