A passage from Carl Sagan's book written 25 years ago
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“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
But the full quote from Churchill has more timely insight:
“We must always look forward, but we have to understand our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I have seen too many instances where people continue to pursue wrong courses of action because they do not take the time to think critically about what has happened in the past.”
The human race is very predictable in their unpredictability.
Churchill was a historian. He once said about world war ii, "history will think highly of me, for I intend to write it."
He did. It's the standard first thing to read when studying the war.
But also for example over 1 million "free" Soviet citizens starved to death just after the war in their own destroyed country.
Which is talked about even less.
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1947-2/famine-of-1946-1947/
Mostly outside camps.
Moving from inception towards death...what are the implications for the sustenance of life if one always looks forward towards death?
What if ones comprehension is based on adaptation to what one perceives; and not upon believing suggested his-story by other? How is it that his-story always misses the main actor of ALL reality...ONEself?
What if flow represents the natural order, and forms ignorance thereof causes the problems? What are the implications of ignoring that which is (form within flow) for that which was (past), and that which might be (future)? Could doing that cause a present based on self imposed stress; originating from self imposed loss (past) and hope/fear (future)?
What if flow represents continuance for the form set into it, and also defines the direction (from beginning towards end)? Also; could it be that action is defined by response to aka form to flow aka momentum to motion aka resistance to velocity?