define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: Do You Even History? http://1000wordsabout.com/do-you-even-history/ I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library - Borges Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:59:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: Robert http://1000wordsabout.com/do-you-even-history/#comment-800 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:59:29 +0000 http://1000wordsabout.com/?p=556#comment-800 I enjoyed reading your interesting text. During reading, I wondered how this works in today’s politics in ‘the West’. A very good example of forgetting or remaining silent about specific facts, is the populist UK’s Widdecombe’s speech in EU parliament (2019) regarding Brexit. A speech that doesn’t respect history. Not only by remaining silent, but even by making up a past that never was. Which becomes dangerous if used by politicians to make up a future that never will be. Something populists do. Populist demagogues do without history. That populists find supporters is the best proof that education failed and that history seems to be a lost object that they seem not to be missing. Not good for the future.

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