The Human Tragedy Is Not Forgetting: It Is Believing That This Time We Will Be.. |
….. Able to Control the Forces We Unleash
Veni, vidi… and understood!?
There is an idea that emerges almost naturally every time history stumbles over the same stones again: that humanity’s real problem is forgetting.
That if we could preserve all our experiences intact — wars, crises, catastrophes, collective mistakes — we would finally learn. As if what we lacked were some mechanism capable of preventing us from repeating what we already know ends badly.
It is a powerful fantasy. To imagine a humanity in which each generation inherited not only physical traits, but memories as well. Not studying history, but feeling it. Carrying within ourselves the fear of a bombed city, the hunger of an economic collapse, the anguish of entire societies walking toward disaster without being able to stop.
But perhaps the........