George Santayana had said
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
sadly, the lesser mortals at the helm of affairs these days are choosing to close eyes to the painful aspects of their history which, they themselves are indirectly admitting, they have not forgotten.
all their stupid acts of changing names will lead to is forgetting the lessons.
there can be four kinds of responses to our history:
1. painful history, lesson taken
= the history is no longer that painful but very enlightening leading to an evolved and liberated race
2. pleasant history, lessons learnt
= pride of a nation or race reinforced enhancing confidence for the coming generations
3. pleasant history, ignored
4. painful history, lessons not learnt
unfortunately we are lately turning out to be the 3rd and 4th types.
we are ignoring and brushing aside our good fortune of glorious history points besides refusing to show character to acknowledge and plug our blunders and weaknesses as a race.
as Pema Chodron had said - "nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know..."
I shiver with pain on the thought that our past 500 or 1000 years of forgotten or trampled history may curse us to bear it again.
this great nation may fail to arrive in future along with other civilisations.
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