New York Observer:
Nixon’s Last Lie. Don’t just skim; read the entire piece.
Comments:
I’m interested, ana, do you see any value in learning from history? You sound a bit of the Taoist persuasion ... I fear having to relive the same mistakes over and over again. Yet, I will admit, for all the history we learn, we still keep making those same mistakes over and over and over again ...
Posted by garret on 06/10/05 at 07:34 PM
For learning from history, I would have to be clear that I am learning from the mind’s idea of history, and that is just another thought, informed by whatever sets of conditioning I anyway already have at the moment. And it is those sets that determine my actions, not my observation of them. How else to eplain Israel/Palestine for fifty years? Or, pick your conflict.
Posted by ana ma roopa on 06/11/05 at 02:31 AM
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History of compromise, indeed. History is a compromise with, of, reality, like all concepts, and has nothing to do with anything, and this article is a good example showing the futiltiy of using historical analysis to change the nature of things. Life continues to be like it is, and accepting that, rather than rehashing concepts, seems the basic requirement for any kind of qualitative change. So, good article, nice thinking, smooth writing, but useless.
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