History, I’m told by those who purport to know has no
beginning or end. It flows like a river whether there’s any one to note or
notice or not. Perhaps, but that we as a species do notice and (at least in theory) do draw conclusions from what we
note and notice, may, along with these opposable thumbs and our command of
tools, be what sets us apart from the other beasts of the earth.
Or not.
I add the 'or not' disclaimer when thinking about history because
that’s the easier path. And if I’m about anything at all, it’s the ‘don’t think
too hard, you’ll strain yourself’ school of exertion. Three names associated
with three moments in our history that share this date; you do the math. Let me know how that straight line connecting them together turns out to be and then let me know what we should do about it.
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history
of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. As Abraham Lincoln said some four score and seven years later, "(T)he best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-bill kenny
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