Do You Matter ?

History is a part of us today whether we like it or not. Asking ourselves does history matter is like asking yourself if you, yourself matter ? The answer, in my opinion, is YES! it does matter. Why ? Because of history we are who we are today, whether its your life's history or the worlds history. History helps us find solutions to problems we have had before in the past. history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce (Marx). history really does repeat itself and it has. First it would be a tragedy and if it happens again that means no one has learned from the first time so it would have to be a farce the second time. history matters because it's very important to learn about the past, to be informed about the challenges we have come across or will need to defeat later on. Because of history we grow, imagine if you didn't know were you came from and what you are all about, you would be lost. That's why history guides us and with the knowledge we have we can one, become stronger as a nation and individual and two, past our history tests :)

Saying Yes To Lies.

In my opinion history is a lie that people agree with because they either do not know any better, or simply they refuse to believe what is true. My prediction is that because people are taught one thing by a teacher or someone older, they decide to agree and believe what ever that teacher or adult is saying. the people who are agreeing with them wouldn't know any better because they have no were else to turn. Even if they look in a history book or ask another professor ,who majors in history, they might have been taught these "lies" also. So because they , the teachers, agree with it its most likely that those who they are teaching well agree with it as-well.  So as the student who are being taught these lies will grow and teach others. Therefore, it would become a chain of people agreeing with what they think is true. That is when the quote "History is the lie commonly agreed upon."  said by Voltaire comes into play. Know I'm in this class were the teacher is telling us the "truth" about what really happened in history. But, I stop to think.. how do i even now if the "truth" that i am being taught isn't just more lies ? I guess will never really no what happened in our history unless we actually lived through it.