The historical experience is one of going back into the past and returning to the present with a wider and more intense consciousness of the restrictions of our former outlook. We return with a broader awareness of the alternatives open to us and armed with a sharper perceptiveness with which to make our choices. In this manner it is possible to loosen the clutch of the dead hand of the past and transform it into a living tool for the present and the future. ~ William Appleman Williams
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. . . .
~ William Carlos Williams, from In the American Grain (1925). The Virtue of History
My father argues, He never stopped advancing a perspective, any more than i do.
His points to me were as follows, violent resistance to the republic is both futile and self defeating.
As an adolescent i found this very disappointing after reading Heinlein and the A cookbook. I felt animate change was in the air in my little coastal town like it Beirut was to be smited by the sword of Aries just years after my birth in 60.
That the sins of the parents will be visited onto the children for many generations, in many different ways. Best to break the chains unless your heart is steeled.
Complexity is the nature of the universe, simplicity is to accept that.
I'm so excited to be going to this wonderful ancestral event.
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