Throughout the past different cultures have altered and left their stamp on history. We tend to think that human progress is a present day phenomena, but in reality rights seem to have always progressed and declined. Three specific cultures exemplify this behavior:
For example, in its time Greece practiced homosexuality as an establishment, and a law, all the while diminishing the rights of women for procreation. In today’s western democracy it seems to be the opposite. We tend to devalue homosexuality more when compared to women rights! Because we value women’s rights as normal in correlations with the mores of our society, whereas Greece and latter Rome, to be a homosexual was viewed as normal. Seems like we went a few steps down!
The Mayans, despite their latest world ending debunked myth, had extraordinary precision with astronomy, no different than the Sumerians, which curiously also predate the Mayans. Impressively they used no technology to predict planets and even black holes! We used another system to get there thanks to the power of the atom. However, even with our present advancements neither the Mayans nor our generation has traveled to other stars! So it seems science has its limits on both accounts. Fact is: no one is travelling to stars.
Between the 6th and 17th centuries the Roman Catholic Church burned at the stake anyone who confessed to be a non-believer or worshiped magic. They even persecuted and killed Albigensian’s and Waldensian’s in southern France for reading the Bible. The Catholic Church was the dominant force at the time! Today’s world has changed as far as the west goes but from another angle it’s much the same. The science agenda dominates just alike the Catholic Church did at that time, and they also ban those who don’t agree with their agenda and fire them to remain silent! (The good thing is that at least they don’t fire them alive!) Jokes aside! Truth with its bias seems to have evolved from using brute force into simply withholding opportunities or erasing the value of those with opposing views. Nothing new.
So is history repetitive or progressive?
Claude Nougat.
“To say that History repeats itself is a worn-out cliché. We never fail to use it when we see a social pattern echoing one from the past. Much of what happens today seems to be a repeat – and we are quick to exclaim: nothing is new under the sun.
Yet it’s another cliché! But that does not mean we, humans, are stuck. Progress always seems to arrive from unexpected quarters: just ask the young Arab rebels what they think of the Arab Spring and what they hope for! Or ask Silicon Valley denizens about their own brand of technological revolution…”
Alan Caruba.
“History, from my reading of it, is repetitive. Only the technology changes. We have gone from stones to spears to gunpowder to “cyber-war” and it is all just war for conquest, whatever the reason given.
Catherine Haig.
“History is repetitive due to three factors: people’s ignorance, People with agenda’s rewrite history; People with a keen knowledge of history use the bad moments to repeat to twist history to their agenda (site: Pearl Harbor – POTUS knew about Jap attack; World Trade Center – POTUS BUSH Jr knew about attack did not intercede-if he did not know Cheney sure did).
