History
History is all that is
remembered
of the past, and what has been
preserved in writing
as a
body of knowledge. History is a
record
of the past or a
narrative description of
past
events that are usually
non-fiction based.
History is the discipline that
records and
interprets past events involving
human beings. The
continuum of events occurring in succession
leading from the
past to the
present and even into the future.
History is an enormous number of small
stories that can also be
compressed into
one big story. History is
sometimes interpreted as His-Story.
Chronicle is to record
information in
chronological order.
An
arrangement of
events in time that makes a
historical record.
Record is a
compilation of the known
facts regarding something or
someone. Providing permanent
evidence
and
information about past events.
Record in
law is a
document that can serve as legal
evidence
of a transaction. A record can also mean the sum of recognized
accomplishments of the number of wins versus losses. To be or provide a
memorial to a person or
an event. Record in
photography is
anything such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph. A
record can also mean a
sound recording
consisting of a disk with a continuous groove that is used to reproduce
music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.
Commemorate -
Memoir -
Biography -
Essay -
Cultural Studies -
Ages -
Manipulation of
History
Recorded History is a historical
narrative based on a
written record
or other
documented communication.
It contrasts with other narratives of the past, such as
mythological, oral
or archeological traditions. For broader world history, recorded history
begins with the accounts of the ancient world around the 4th millennium
BC, and coincides with the invention of
writing.
For some geographic regions or
cultures,
written history is limited to a relatively recent period in human history
because of the limited use of written records. Moreover, human
cultures do not always record all of the
information relevant to later historians, such as the full impact
of natural disasters or the names of individuals; thus, recorded history
for particular types of
information is limited
based on the types of records kept. Because of this, recorded
history in different
contexts may refer
to different periods of time depending on the topic. The
interpretation of recorded history
often relies on historical method, or the set of techniques and guidelines
by which historians use primary sources and other
evidence to
research and then to write accounts of
the past. The question of the nature, and even the possibility, of an
effective method for interpreting recorded history is raised in the
philosophy of history as a question of
epistemology. The study of different historical methods is known as
historiography, which focuses on examining how different interpreters of
recorded history
create different interpretations of historical evidence.
Antiquity is the historic period preceding the
Middle Ages in Europe.
An artifact that is extremely old that has survived from the past.
Historical Document are
original documents that contain important
historical information about a person, place, or event and can thus serve
as primary sources as important ingredients of the historical methodology.
Significant historical documents can be deeds, laws, accounts of battles
(often given by the victors or persons sharing their viewpoint), or the
exploits of the powerful. Though these
documents are of historical
interest, they do not detail the
daily lives of ordinary people, or the
way society functioned. Anthropologists, historians and archeologists
generally are more interested in documents that describe the day-to-day
lives of ordinary people, indicating what they ate, their interaction with
other members of their households and social groups, and their states of
mind. It is this information that allows them to try to understand and
describe the way society was functioning at any particular time in
history. Greek ostraka provide good examples of historical documents from
"among the common people". Many documents that are produced today, such as
personal letters, pictures, contracts, newspapers, and medical records,
would be considered valuable historical documents in the future. However
most of these will be lost in the future since they are either
printed on
ordinary paper which has a limited lifespan, or even stored in digital
formats, then lost track over time. Some companies and government entities
are attempting to increase the number of documents that will
survive the passage
of time, by taking into account the
preservation issues,
and either printing documents in a manner that would increase the
likelihood of them surviving indefinitely, or placing selected documents
in time capsules or other special storage environments.
Historical Marker
commemorates a person or people or an event, or a former use of the place,
or some other significant thing. Plaques can help us remember people and
events. New York has the the most historical markers with 270, and New
York City has the largest number of designations with 114 designations.
North Dakota has the fewest designations with seven.
Some Historical Markers can get history wrong,
just like
schools can teach history wrong.
So don't believe everything you read or hear, do your research. From the
Atlantic through the Plains, more than 270 markers describe Native
Americans as "savage," "hostile" or "semi-civilized," or they use racial
slurs. At least 200 markers tell an eerily similar American tale: Native
Americans attacked innocent white settlers for no reason. So
some markers can be slanderous.
And nearly 70% of markers that mention plantations do not mention slavery.
At least 65 markers appear to promote a racist philosophy called the Lost
Cause, which claims, among other things, that Black people enjoyed being
enslaved. These markers congratulate men for fighting for "the cause," "a
sacred cause," "their righteous cause" and "a lost cause" and for their
"patriotic devotion," "heroism unsurpassed" and "faultless valor" as they
fought to break the country apart to keep men, women and children enslaved
and preserve what the markers describe as their "glorious heritage." So
most Historical Markers are only half the truth,
and sometimes
markers can be
outright lies. Meanwhile, three states — Georgia, North Carolina and
Tennessee — recently passed laws prohibiting the removal of markers on
public land, making little allowance for how old, wrong, misguided,
confusing or offensive they might be.
When the Teaching of History is Manipulated
Commemorative Plaque or a Historical Marker is a plate of metal,
ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall,
stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief,
or both, to
commemorate one or more
persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing. Many
modern plaques and markers are used to associate the location where the
plaque or marker is installed with the person, event, or item
commemorated as a place worthy of
visit. A monumental plaque or tablet commemorating a deceased person or
persons, can be a simple form of church monument. Most modern plaques
affixed in this way are commemorative of something, but this is not always
the case, and there are purely religious plaques, or those signifying
ownership or affiliation of some sort. A plaquette is a small plaque, but
in English, unlike many European languages, the term is not typically used
for outdoor plaques fixed to walls.
Timeline is a
sequence of related events arranged in
chronological order and displayed along a line, usually drawn left to
right or top to bottom.
Historic Inventions
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Printing Press
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Education
History is an Investigation.
You can't learn accurate history from a book or text book, or learn
accurate history from a story, or a movie or a speaker. The only accurate
history that is
free from
propaganda is the history learned from a
full investigation.
Historical Research studies the
meaning of past events in an attempt to
interpret the
facts and
explain the
cause of events,
and their effect in the present events.
Historical Studies is one type of
qualitative research or historical research, which involves examining
past events to
draw conclusions
and make
predictions about the
future. The steps in historical research are:
formulate an idea, formulate a plan,
gather data,
analyze data, and
analyze the sources of data. Historical Studies explores what happened in
the past, with the goal of
interrupting our present and building a better
future.
Historical Method comprises the
techniques and
guidelines by
which historians use primary
sources
and other
evidence, including the
evidence of
archaeology, to research and
then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past. The question
of the nature, and even the possibility, of a sound historical method is
raised in the
philosophy of history as a question of
epistemology. The
study of historical method and of different ways of writing history is
known as historiography.
Historian is a person who
researches,
studies, and
writes about the
past, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with
the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as
relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.
If the individual is concerned with
events preceding written history, the
individual is an historian of prehistory. Although "historian" can be used
to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is reserved more
recently for those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline.
Some historians, though, are recognized by publications or training and
experience. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late
nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and
elsewhere.
Past Civilizations that Failed.
Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing
history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of
historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific
topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular
sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.
Philosophy of History is the
philosophical study of history and the
past.
Historical Linguistics is the scientific study of
language
change over
time.
World History is a field of
historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the
1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be
confused with diplomatic or international history or
comparative history, which, like world history, deals with the history
of multiple cultures and nations, but does not do so on a global scale.
World history looks for common
patterns that emerge across all cultures.
World historians use a
thematic approach,
with two major focal points: integration and how processes of world history
have drawn people of the world together. And difference, how patterns of
world history reveal the diversity of the human
experiences.
Diplomatic History deals with the history of international relations
between states. Diplomatic history can be different from international
relations in that the former can concern itself with the foreign policy of
one state while the latter deals with relations between two or more
states. Diplomatic history tends to be more concerned with the history of
diplomacy, but international relations concern more with current events
and creating a model intended to shed explanatory light on international
politics.
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the
Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and
Athens until the year
411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of
"scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict
standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and
effect, without
reference to intervention by the deities, as outlined
in his introduction to his work.
Social
History studies the experiences of ordinary people in the
past.
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history.
Contemporary History is a subset of modern history which describes the
historical period from approximately
1945 to the present.
Comparative History is the
comparison of different societies which
existed during the same time period or shared similar cultural conditions.
State of Nature
is the hypothetical conditions of what the
lives of people might
have been like
before societies came into existence. There must have been
a time before
organized societies existed, and this presumption raises
questions such as: "What was life like before civil society?"; "How did
government first emerge from such a starting position?," and; "What are
the hypothetical
reasons for entering a state of society by establishing a
nation-state?".
Earth Timeline -
America Timeline
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What We
Know So Far -
Culture -
Studies of Human Activity
7 Ancient Ruins
around the world, Digitally Reconstructed to show what they originally
looked like (youtube)
History is a series of events, a
series of mistakes, and a series of advancements that happened
before you were born. History is also about a series of events,
a series of mistakes, and a series of advancements that happened
in your lifetime. The problem with history is how the story of
history is told. No one teaches history, or learns history in
the exact same way. So peoples
understanding of the world will
be skewed and distorted from person to person. The only accurate
way of passing forward historical information and knowledge is
by having continuity and clarity about what the information is
and how this information is understood and used. Just like the
information in our
DNA, which instructs our cells how to grow,
without these instructions there would be no life, and, if there
was missing information, this also means there would be no life.
And if there is any deformity of the DNA information, this also
means that the life form has vulnerability to diseases, which
could also cause life to be nonexistent. So the key is in the
instructions and not just the accuracy of the information.
History must have accurate information, and must also
have accurate instructions on how this information is best used.
This way we can maximize the effectiveness, the efficiency and
the benefits that can come from knowledge. And this goes for all
school subjects, and anyone that transmits information.
We have
to take responsibility for the messages that we transmit, and we
must take responsibility for learning how to accurately analyze
all information. As we can clearly see throughout history, when
messages are corrupt or inaccurate, they can have horrible
consequences. So as we are teaching history, we must also be
teaching our young how to analyze all information accurately and
effectively. First, people must have access to all valuable
knowledge and information, second, everyone must learn how to
process and understand all knowledge and information. People
sometimes put an emotional value on certain information, so that
particular information becomes biased, that means that knowledge
and information can easily become misused and misunderstood.
Information needs to be unbiased and accurate in order to the
most effective, but that is a skill that most people don't have
just yet.
The only way to fully understand all the information that comes
from the world, through all our senses, is to learn how to
analyze all information. Schools can easily teach this in one
class, a class called
information literacy. The main point of
having a language is
to communicate effectively and efficiently, but language is much
more then that. Language can also give people the ability to
understand life more accurately. The Human mind has many
controls, and language is the tool that teaches us how to
operate these controls. This is a skill, and should also be a
conscious choice. You learn to walk, you learn to run, you learn
to jump, you learn to talk, you learn what language is, you
learn what information is, you learn how to analyze all
information that you receive, through
all your senses. And now
with
advanced machines, we have even more abilities and
capabilities then ever before.
History has taught us one thing, there is no such thing
as
permanence. This is why life needs to
evolve and adapt.
Mass Extinctions -
Civilization Collapses.
Permanence is
the
property of being able to exist
for an indefinite duration.
Remember,
everyone alive today has just got here, even your
parents just got here. So your parents only have on the average
a 20 year head start on you. And your grandparents only have on
the average a 40 year head start. But just having a head start
does not necessarily mean that someone knows more then you.
Knowing more depends on how much access to knowledge a person had,
and, the value of the knowledge that a person has acquire. You can
easily catch up to someone's education level just by having a
better education then they had, or just by continually teaching
yourself the most valuable knowledge you can find.
We just got
here, and our education system sucks at this moment, but in
2016, our education system is on the verge of a revolution, and
we are the
revolutionaries that will deliver this human race
from its continuing decline. Which means that future generations
will look back at us and see hero's of a revolution that saved
this species from extinction. There will be no monuments
commemorating this time period, just a beautiful life.
"Though human history is filled with tragic moments,
it's plain to see that there was
more
love than war, and there was more love than hate, and there was more
love than destruction.
Human nature is to love, though tragically, schools mostly want
students to learn about the
bad and
the ugly, and learn less about the good and the beautiful, the good
and the beautiful that has allowed humans to live and to
survive for millions of
years."
When the Teaching of History
is Manipulated, you have
confusion and
bad
behavior.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be
lived forwards." -
Søren Kierkegaard
One of the problems of
schools teaching history is that students, and people in general, have
no factual or real connections to the struggles of past
generations, or what was learned from those struggles.
If you need to give a
trigger warning before
teaching a history subject, then you should not be a teacher, or you need
retraining, or at the least, you should rewrite what you have, so that you
don't confuse the message with disturbing details of crimes. Hard History
is only hard when a moron is teaching the subject.
Learning history is about learning how to
do an
investigation. Someone can tell you what happened and give
their interpretation, but it's up to you to investigate more,
question other people, search for documents and any other
evidence that gives you a much more clearer picture about what
happened, why it happened and what was learned. One book, one
teacher, one person is not an investigation, that's
discrimination, that's manipulation, that's
retardation.
The Ages
Periodization is the process or study of
categorizing the past into
discrete, quantified named
blocks of time.
This is usually done in order to facilitate the study and analysis of
history, understanding current and historical processes, and causality
that might have linked those events. This results in descriptive
abstractions that provide convenient terms for
periods of time with
relatively stable characteristics. However, determining the precise
beginning and ending to any ‘period’ is often arbitrary, since it has
changed over time over the course of history. To the extent that history
is continuous and not generalized, all systems of periodization are more
or less arbitrary. Yet without named periods, however clumsy or imprecise,
past time would be nothing more than scattered events without a framework
to help us understand them. Nations, cultures, families, and even
individuals, each with their different remembered histories, are
constantly engaged in imposing overlapping schemes of temporal
periodization. Periodizing labels are continually challenged and
redefined, but once established, a period "brand" is so convenient that
many are hard to change or shake off.
History by Period (wiki) -
List of Decades, Centuries, and Millennia (wiki) -
Stages.
Prehistory is the period between the use of the
first stone tools c.
3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of
writing systems.
The earliest writing systems appeared c. 5,300
years ago, but it took thousands of years for writing to be widely
adopted and it was not used in some human cultures until the 19th century
or even until present. The end of prehistory therefore came at very
different dates in different places, and the term is less often used in
discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently.
Sumer in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley
civilization, and ancient Egypt were the first civilizations to develop
their own scripts and to keep historical records; this took place already
during the early Bronze Age. Neighboring civilizations were the first to
follow. Most other civilizations reached the end of prehistory during the
Iron Age. The three-age system of division of prehistory into the Stone
Age, followed by the Bronze Age and Iron Age, remains in use for much of
Eurasia and North Africa, but is not generally used in those parts of the
world where the working of hard metals arrived abruptly from contact with
Eurasian cultures, such as Oceania, Australasia, much of Sub-Saharan
Africa, and parts of the Americas. With some exceptions in pre-Columbian
civilizations in the Americas, these areas did not develop complex writing
systems before the arrival of Eurasians, so their prehistory reaches into
relatively recent periods; for example, 1788 is usually taken as the end
of the prehistory of Australia. The period when a culture is written about
by others, but has not developed its own writing system is often known as
the
protohistory of the culture. By
definition, there are no written records from human prehistory, so dating
of prehistoric materials is crucial. Clear techniques for dating were not
well-developed until the nineteenth century. This article is concerned
with human prehistory, the time since behaviorally and anatomically modern
humans first appeared until the beginning of recorded history. Earlier
periods are also called "
prehistoric";
there are separate articles for the overall history of the Earth and the
history of life before humans.
Deep
Time is the modern concept that shows huge changes over the age of the
Earth which has been determined to be, after a long and complex history of
developments, around
4.55 billion years.
Deep
History is a term for the distant past of the human species.
Long Term Thinking.
Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the
Big Bang to the present. Big History resists specialization, and searches
for universal patterns or trends. It examines long time frames using a
multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from
science and the humanities, and explores human existence in the context of
this bigger picture. It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and
humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations,
and is taught at universities and primary and secondary schools often
using web-based interactive presentations.
History of Life traces the processes by which living and fossil
organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day.
Earth formed about
4.5 billion years ago
(abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged
prior to 3.7 Ga. (Although there is some evidence of life as early as 4.1
to 4.28 Ga, it remains controversial due to the possible non-biological
formation of the purported fossils.) The similarities among all known
present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the process
of evolution from a common ancestor. Approximately 1 trillion species
currently live on Earth of which only 1.75–1.8 million have been named and
1.8 million documented in a central database. These currently living
species represent less than one percent of all species that have ever
lived on Earth.
History of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its
formation to the present day. Nearly all branches of natural science have
contributed to understanding of the main events of Earth's past,
characterized by constant geological change and biological evolution. The
geological time scale (GTS), as defined by international convention,
depicts the large spans of time from the beginning of the Earth to the
present, and its divisions chronicle some definitive events of Earth
history. (In the graphic: Ga means "billion years ago"; Ma, "million years
ago".) Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third
the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. Volcanic
outgassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean,
but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen. Much of the Earth was
molten because of frequent collisions with other bodies which led to
extreme volcanism. While the Earth was in its earliest stage (Early
Earth), a giant impact collision with a planet-sized body named Theia is
thought to have formed the Moon. Over time, the Earth cooled, causing the
formation of a solid crust, and allowing liquid water on the surface.
Geologic Time Scale is a system of
chronological dating that classifies geological strata (stratigraphy)
in time. It is used by geologists, paleontologists, and other Earth
scientists to describe the timing and relationships of events in geologic
history. The time scale was developed through the study and observation of
layers of rock and relationships as well as the times when different
organisms appeared, evolved and became extinct through the study of
fossilized remains and imprints. The table of geologic time spans,
presented here, agrees with the nomenclature, dates and standard color
codes set forth by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Ages of Man are the
stages of human existence on the Earth
according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.
Ages is
how long something has existed. An
era of history having some distinctive feature. A prolonged
period of time. Ages also means to
grow old or
older.
Stone
Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used
to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period
lasted for roughly
3.4 million years,
and ended between 8700 BCE and
2000 BCE, with the advent of
metalworking.
Jericho
is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan
Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west.
Founded 9600 BCE.
Neolithic Period is the final division of the Stone Age, with a
wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently
in several parts of the world. It is first seen about
12,000 years ago when the first
developments of farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and
later in other parts of the world. The Neolithic lasted (in that part of
the world) until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic from about
6,500 years ago (4500 BCE), marked by the
development of metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Aurignacian is an
archaeological
tradition of the Upper Paleolithic associated with European early modern
humans lasting from
43,000 to 26,000 years ago.
The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant,
where the Emiran period and the Ahmarian period form the first periods of
the Upper Paleolithic, corresponding to the first stages of the expansion
of
Homo sapiens out of
Africa. They then migrated to Europe and created the first European
culture of modern humans, the Aurignacian. An Early Aurignacian or Proto-Aurignacian
stage is dated between about 43,000 and 37,000 years ago. The Aurignacian
proper lasts from about 37,000 to 33,000 years ago. A Late Aurignacian
phase transitional with the Gravettian dates to about 33,000 to 26,000
years ago. The type site is the Cave of Aurignac, Haute-Garonne,
south-west France. The main preceding period is the Mousterian of the
Neanderthals. One of the oldest examples of figurative art, the Venus of
Hohle Fels, comes from the Aurignacian and is dated to between 40,000 and
35,000 years ago (though now earlier figurative art may be known, see
Lubang Jeriji Saléh). It was discovered in September 2008 in a cave at
Schelklingen in Baden-Württemberg in western Germany. The German Lion-man
figure is given a similar date range. The Bacho Kiro site in Bulgaria is
one of the earliest known Aurignacian burials. A "Levantine Aurignacian"
culture is known from the Levant, with a type of blade technology very
similar to the European Aurignacian, following chronologically the Emiran
and Early Ahmarian in the same area of the Near East, and also closely
related to them. The Levantine Aurignacian may have preceded European
Aurignacian, but there is a possibility that the Levantine Aurignacian was
rather the result of reverse influence from the European Aurignacian: this
remains unsettled.
Levantine Aurignacian (35,000-29,000 BP, calibrated, 32,000-26,000 BP,
non-calibrated) is an Upper Paleolithic culture of the Near-Eastern
Levant. It was named so because of the similarity of stone tools with the
Aurignacian culture in Europe. The Levantine Aurignacian used to be called
Lower and Upper Antelian in old sources, from the site of Wadi Antelias in
Lebanon.
Bronze
Age is a historical period that was characterized by the use of
bronze, in some areas
proto-writing, and other
early features of urban civilization. (Africa, Near East c.
3300–1200 BC). Whilst terrestrial iron is
naturally abundant, its high melting point of 1,538 °C (2,800 °F) placed
it out of reach of common use until the end of the second millennium BC.
Tin's low melting point of 231.9 °C (449.4 °F) and copper's relatively
moderate melting point of 1,085 °C (1,985 °F) placed them within the
capabilities of the Neolithic pottery kilns, which date back to 6000 BC
and were able to produce temperatures greater than 900 °C (1,650 °F).
Copper-tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact that there were no tin
bronzes in Western Asia before trading in bronze began in the third
millennium BC. Worldwide, the Bronze Age generally followed the Neolithic
period, with the Chalcolithic serving as a transition. Although the Iron
Age generally followed the Bronze Age, in some areas (such as Sub-Saharan
Africa), the Iron Age began as early as 2500 BC. Bronze Age cultures
differed in their development of the first writing. According to
archaeological evidence, cultures in Mesopotamia (cuneiform script) and
Egypt (hieroglyphs) developed the earliest practical writing systems.
Iron
Age varies depending on the region under consideration. (Ancient Near
East
1200–550 BC) "Iron Age" begins locally
when the production of iron or steel has been brought to the point where
iron tools and weapons superior to their bronze equivalents become
widespread.
Classical Antiquity is the period of cultural history between the
8th century BC and the
6th century AD centered on the
Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient
Greece and ancient Rome known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period
in which both Greek and Roman societies flourished and wielded great
influence throughout much of Europe, Northern Africa, and West Asia.
Golden Age refers to the first in a sequence of four or five
(or more) Ages of Man, in which the Golden Age is first, followed in
sequence, by the Silver,
Bronze Age, Heroic, and then the present (Iron),
which is a period of decline, sometimes followed by the Leaden Age. By
definition, one is never in the Golden Age.
Silver Age is a name often given to a particular period
within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden
age. In many cultures the metal silver is generally valuable but less so
than gold.
Greek Heroic Age is the period between the coming of the
Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy.
Dark Ages was a time of
intellectual darkness in Europe between the fall of Rome and the
Renaissance. It was a
tumultuous period in the
10th and 11th
centuries when
traditional
light-versus-
darkness
imagery to contrast the era's "darkness" (
ignorance
and
error) with earlier
and later periods of 'light' (knowledge and understanding). Dark ages is a
term for the Early Middle Ages.
Knowledge
Gap.
Middle
Ages lasted from the
5th to the
15th century.
Late Middle Ages (wiki) -
Medieval Times
English Language (1362)
-
Printing Press
(1435)
-
Inventions Timeline
Renaissance was the span between the
14th and
17th centuries and marking
the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
Zeitgeist is the spirit of the time that is characteristic of an age
or generation. The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of
history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
Age of Discovery was from the beginning of the
15th century until the end of the
18th century.
Age of Enlightenment from
1715 to
1789.
Scientific Revolution was a drastic change in
scientific thought that took place during the
16th and 17th centuries. A new view of nature emerged during the
Scientific Revolution, replacing the
Greek view that had dominated science for almost 2,000 years.
Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of
modern science during the early modern period, when developments in
mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and
chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. The Scientific
Revolution took place in Europe in the second half of the Renaissance
period, with the 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publication De revolutionibus
orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) often cited
as its beginning. The era of the Scientific Renaissance focused to some
degree on
recovering the knowledge of the
ancients and is considered to have culminated in Isaac Newton's 1687
publication Principia which formulated the laws of motion and universal
gravitation, thereby completing the synthesis of a new cosmology. The
subsequent Age of Enlightenment saw the concept of a scientific revolution
emerge in the 18th-century work of Jean Sylvain Bailly, who described a
two-stage process of sweeping away the old and establishing the new. There
continues to be scholarly engagement regarding the boundaries of the
Scientific Revolution and its chronology.
Philosophy.
Antiquity is the historic period preceding
the Middle Ages in Europe. An
artifact
surviving from the past. Extreme oldness.
Archaic is of an early period of art or culture, especially the
7th–6th centuries BC in Greece. Meaning very old or
old-fashioned. Of a word or a style
of language no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an
old-fashioned flavor.
Archaism
is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs
to a historical epoch long beyond living memory, but that has survived in
a few practical settings or affairs.
Epoch
is a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point
or event. A unit of geological
time that is a
subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages. Epoch in
astronomy is an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative
to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded.
Industrial Revolution was the transition to
new manufacturing
processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about
1760 to sometime between 1820 and
1840. This transition included going from
hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron
production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power,
the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory
system. The Industrial Revolution also led to an unprecedented rise in the
rate of
population growth. By the 1830s the
following gains had been made in important technologies:
Textiles – mechanised cotton spinning
powered by steam or water increased the output of a worker by a factor of
around 500. The power loom increased the output of a worker by a factor of
over 40. The cotton gin
increased
productivity of removing seed from cotton by a factor of 50. Large
gains in productivity also occurred in spinning and weaving of wool and
linen, but they were not as great as in cotton.
Steam power – the efficiency of steam
engines increased so that they used between one-fifth and one-tenth as
much fuel. The adaptation of stationary steam engines to rotary motion
made them suitable for industrial uses. The high pressure engine had a
high power to weight ratio, making it suitable for transportation. Steam
power underwent a rapid expansion after 1800.
Iron making – the
substitution of coke for
charcoal greatly
lowered the fuel cost of pig iron and wrought iron production. Using coke
also allowed larger blast furnaces, resulting in economies of scale. The
steam engine began being used to pump water and to power blast air in the
mid 1750s, enabling a large increase in iron production by overcoming the
limitation of water power. The cast iron blowing cylinder was first used
in 1760. It was later improved by making it double acting, which allowed
higher blast furnace temperatures. The puddling process produced a
structural grade iron at a lower cost than the finery forge. The rolling
mill was fifteen times faster than hammering wrought iron. Hot blast in
1828 greatly increased fuel efficiency in iron production in the following
decades.
Invention of machine tools
– The first machine tools were invented. These included the screw cutting
lathe, cylinder boring machine and the milling machine. Machine tools made
the economical manufacture of precision metal parts possible, although it
took several decades to develop effective techniques. In 1824 Joseph
Aspdin, a British bricklayer turned builder, patented a chemical process
for making
portland cement which
was an important advance in the building trades.
Gilded Age was an
era that occurred during the
late 19th century,
from the
1870s to about 1900. The Gilded
Age was an era of
rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United
States and the Western United States. As American
wages grew much higher
than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an
influx of millions of European immigrants. The rapid expansion of
industrialization led to a real wage growth of 60%, between 1860 and 1890,
and spread across the ever-increasing labor force. The average annual wage
per industrial worker (including men, women, and children) rose from $380
in 1880, to $564 in 1890, a gain of 48%. Conversely, the Gilded Age was
also an era of abject
poverty and
inequality, as millions of
immigrants—many from impoverished regions—poured into the United States,
and the
high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.
Railroads were the major growth industry, with the factory system, mining,
and finance increasing in importance. Immigration from Europe, and the
eastern states, led to the rapid growth of the West, based on farming,
ranching, and mining. Labor unions became increasingly important in the
rapidly growing industrial cities. Two major nationwide depressions—the
Panic of 1873 and the
Panic of 1893—interrupted growth and caused social
and political upheavals. The South, after the Civil War, remained
economically devastated; its economy became increasingly tied to
commodities, cotton, and tobacco production, which suffered from low
prices. With the end of the
Reconstruction era in 1877, African-American
people in the South were stripped of political power and
voting rights,
and were left economically disadvantaged. The political landscape was
notable in that despite some
corruption, election turnout was very high
and national elections saw
two evenly matched parties. The dominant issues
were cultural (especially regarding
prohibition,
education, and ethnic or
racial groups) and economic (tariffs and money supply). With the rapid
growth of cities, political machines increasingly took control of urban
politics. In business, powerful nationwide trusts formed in some
industries.
Unions crusaded for the eight-hour working day, and the
abolition of child labor; middle class reformers demanded civil service
reform, prohibition of liquor and beer, and women's suffrage. Local
governments across the North and West built public schools chiefly at the
elementary level; public high schools started to emerge. The numerous
religious denominations were growing in membership and wealth, with
Catholicism becoming the largest. They all expanded their missionary
activity to the world arena. Catholics, Lutherans, and Episcopalians set
up religious schools and the larger of those set up numerous colleges,
hospitals, and charities. Many of the problems faced by society,
especially the poor, gave rise to attempted reforms in the subsequent
Progressive Era,
which was a period of widespread
social activism
and political reform across the United States focused on defeating
corruption,
monopoly, waste, and
inefficiency.
Progressives
sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization,
urbanization, immigration,
and political corruption; and by the
enormous concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies.
Information Age -
Technology
Age -
Ecological Age -
Genealogy -
Heredity
-
Blood Line -
Passing the Torch -
Timeline of the Universe.
1900 to 2000's - The Era of Mistakes and
Great Advancements. Humans have been making mistakes since the beginning.
But as society made advancements, society also kept making mistakes, with
one big mistake doing the most of the damage, which was the
deliberate dumbing down of
education. If you can't educate people to learn from their mistakes
and teach people how to avoid mistakes, then humans will continue to make
mistakes and continue not to learn from their mistakes. Problems can't be
fixed without the knowledge needed to fix them.
Ignorant Ages are the centuries of
stupidity and
corruption. Though
advancements were made, ignorance prevailed due to a
dumb down education system
and a
corporate controlled media
outlets. We never really left the
dark ages because
most people live in a
fantasy world
were reality is undefined.
With
knowledge being so
important, everyone should have a good understanding of what knowledge is.
Human intelligence is staring us in the
face.
New Age
is applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices
which rapidly grew in the Western world during the
1970s. Precise
scholarly definitions of the New Age differ in their emphasis, largely as
a result of its
highly eclectic structure. Although analytically often considered to
be religious, those involved in it typically prefer the designation of
spiritual or Mind, Body, Spirit and rarely use the term New Age
themselves. Many scholars of the subject refer to it as the New Age
movement, although others contest this term and suggest that it is better
seen as a milieu or zeitgeist.
History Repeats Itself - False Memories - Failing to Learn from the Past
“
He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present
controls the past.”~Quote from
George Orwell's dystopian
novel, "
1984"
that was written 1949.
Ingsoc
is the
totalitarian government
of Oceania.
"The one who tells the
story rules the world" - “
Those who
tell the
stories rule society.”
Censorship -
Language Control -
Propaganda -
Half Truth
-
Brainwashing -
Whitewashing -
False Memories -
Gaslighting -
Tampering with Evidence -
Religious Charlatans -
Fantasy World -
Pretending to Know -
Civil War -
Secrecy -
Indoctrination -
Chinese Whispers
-
Elder Knowledge -
Recall Bias -
Falsifying
Documents -
Book Burning -
Dumbing Down Education
-
Information
Bubbles -
Social Engineering
-
The Paradox of our
Time -
Law of Non-Contradiction -
Same Shit Different Century"It's frightful that people who are so
ignorant should have so much influence."
George Orwell
Those who
cannot remember
the past are condemned to
repeat it. Those who
fail to learn from the
mistakes of their predecessors are destined to
repeat them.
George Santayana (wiki) - 1905.
"History would be a
wonderful thing – if it were only true." -
Leo
Tolstoy
"
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have
been fooled." (
Mark
Twain)
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate
those who speak it." (
George Orwell)
Historic Recurrence is the
repetition of similar events in history.
The rise and
fall of empires, the
repetitive patterns, and the many
specific events that bear a
striking similarities to other events. If you
teach the same things, and if history is learned in the same way as it was
before, then the same things will keep happening and people will continue
to repeat the same old behaviors. If you
don't learn from your
mistakes, then you will
repeat those
mistakes and always be
suffering from the
consequences of those mistakes. This is why we always have wars. This
is why something really bad happens almost like clockwork every five or
ten years. This is programmed
amnesia
derived from an
inadequate education.
Schools are just spreading
rumors
as if it were education, and another pending
collapse
is the end result.
Language Rules the Brain -
Literary Time Techniques -
Pretending to Know
When a small group of people can control what people learn
about history, bad behaviors in our past history can repeat themselves. When information was being
controlled by a minority of
people, memories of the past can affect the present and can also change the
Future. It's easy to
brainwash people
and control peoples minds when you
control what people learn. You can tell
people that they are receiving medicine, but if you only give them the
placebo, then people will have
the illusion that they are receiving something beneficial.
What happens when you
ignore a dangerous virus
on purpose?
Might makes Right asserts that a society's view of right and wrong is
determined by those in power, with a meaning similar to "
History
is written by the victors". That is, although all people have their
personal ideas of the good, only those strong enough to overcome obstacles
and enemies can put their ideas into effect, and spread their own
standards to society at large.
The United States of Amnesia is a 2013 documentary film about the life
and career of author Gore Vidal. America has forgotten its constitutional
roots in its hunger for pointless expansion.
If a person does not learn from past experiences then they are
doomed to repeat them.
If you do not teach students how to overcome
mistakes, and teach
students how to keep from
repeating mistakes, then you are only guaranteeing that the
cycle of ignorance will continue.
Memorizing peoples names,
dates and places has nothing to do with knowledge, those are
mostly irrelevant details. The true knowledge is in knowing what you have
learned from that mistake and learning how you will keep from
repeating that same mistake. This takes
planning. So history is
not just about the past, more importantly, history is about the
Future, mainly because you can't change what happened in the
past but you can change what happens it the future. And that is
why learning the important elements from the past, and the
present, are extremely valuable in
decision making.
Having an interest in history is nice. But just
having Historical interest does not teach people what our
history actually means or what can be learned from our
Past.
If you spend all this time preserving history and culture you
should spend even more time explaining what it means and what
can be learned.
Historians need to be Scientists and Curriculum Engineers so
that they can fully utilize this valuable resource to its full
potential. "Stop being
selective and stop misrepresenting the truth."
"
Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is
blind to the present. Who ever refuses to remember the
inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection..seeking to forget
makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance."
Richard von Weizsäcker.
Politics of Memory means by which events are remembered and recorded,
or discarded. Eventually, politics of memory may determine the way history
is written and passed on, hence the terms history politics or politics of
history. The politics of history is the effects of political influence on
the representation or study of historical topics, commonly associated with
the totalitarian state which use propaganda and other means to impose a
specific version of history with the goal of eliminating competing
perspectives about the past
National Memory is a form of collective memory defined by shared
experiences and culture. It is an integral part to national identity. It
represents one specific form of cultural memory, which makes an essential
contribution to national group cohesion. Historically national communities
have drawn upon commemorative ceremonies and monuments, myths and rituals,
glorified individuals, objects, and events in their own history to produce
a common
narrative.
Conformity -
Influence -
Ego -
Collapse
Collective Memory refers to the shared pool of memories, knowledge and
information of a
social group that is significantly associated with the
group's identity. Collective memory can be constructed, shared, and passed
on by large and small social groups.
Collective Consciousness is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and
moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society. In
general, it does not refer to the specifically moral conscience, but to a
shared understanding of social norms. It refers to the unconscious mind
and shared mental concepts. the concept of the
collective unconscious
helps to explain why similar themes occur in mythologies around the world.
He argued that the collective unconscious had a profound influence on the
lives of individuals, who lived out its symbols and clothed them in
meaning through their experiences.
Collective Representations are concepts, ideas, categories and beliefs
that do not belong to isolated individuals, but are instead the product of
a social collectivity.
Social Representations are a system of values, ideas, metaphors,
beliefs, and practices that serve to establish social order, orient
participants and enable communication among the members of groups and
communities.
Cultural Memory
posits that memory is not just an individual, private experience but also
part of the collective domain, which both shapes the future and our
understanding of the past.
Folk Memory refers
to past events that have been
passed orally from generation to generation.
Historical Fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes
place in the setting of particular real historical events. It often makes
many use of symbolism in allegory using figurative and metaphorical
elements to picture a story. An essential element of historical fiction is
that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social
conditions and other details of the depicted period. Authors also
frequently choose to explore notable historical figures in these settings,
allowing readers to better understand how these individuals might have
responded to their environments. The historical romance usually seeks to
romanticize eras of the past. Some subgenres such as alternate history and
historical fantasy insert intentionally ahistorical or speculative
elements into a novel.
Historical Fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical
fiction that incorporates fantastic elements, such as magic, into a more
"realistic" narrative.
Alternate
History is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more
historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in
actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate
history stories propose What if? scenarios about crucial events in human
history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record.
Some alternate histories are considered a subgenre of science fiction, or
historical fiction.
Historical Negationism is the
distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear to
have occurred and/or impacted history in a way that is in
drastic disagreement with the historical record
and/or consensus, and usually
meant to
advance a socio-political view or agenda.
Historical
Revisionism involves
challenging the orthodox or the established, accepted or traditional
scholarly views or narratives regarding a historical event, timespan, or
phenomenon by introducing
contrary
evidence or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people
involved.
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudohistorical and
historical negationist myth that claims the cause of the Confederate
States during the
American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.
Counterfactual History is a form of historiography that attempts to
answer "
what if"
questions known as
counterfactuals, which is a conditional with a
false if-clause.
So many things have changed and improved,
but sadly,
some things have stayed the same, like war, greed,
corruption, crime and poverty, to name a few. And none of those
things are even necessary for life. We made a lot of
improvements, but we also created more problems at the same time.
Problems that are known by many, and some problems that are unknown by
many. Some of us have changed the names and the definitions of
these problems, but
that does not change the outcomes. This is another reason why
improving education is so extremely important. If we can't teach
the truth, then life is a lie. And we will always suffer from
war, greed, corruption, crime and poverty, till our own
extinction. We have created a horrible and brutal mess of our
paradise on earth. This is not life. Our ignorance is killing
us, and our planet. And we don't have to be ignorant anymore,
because WE KNOW, WE KNOW! And this truth we can no longer hide
or deny. It's time. it's time to learn, it's time for life.
It's
time.
Memory Hole is any mechanism for the alteration or
disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs,
transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive,
particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something
never happened.
Banned
Books.
U.S. History: Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (youtube) - John Oliver takes a
look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we
can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone's best
interest to understand the most realistic version of the past.
Everything has happened before. Evil: the same old thing. No matter what happens, keep
this in mind: It’s the same old thing, from one end of the world to the
other. It fills the history books, ancient and modern, and the cities, and
the houses too. Nothing new at all. Familiar, transient.
Marcus Aurelius. "
Same Shit Different Day,
just the same old shit and the same old story, over and over again."
"Understanding our past
can help us see the future."
Societal Collapse -
Activism Quotes
The Brave New World is a fantastic
parable about the dehumanization of human beings, a dystopia where
man has been subordinated
to his own inventions. Science, technology, social organization, have
ceased to serve man, instead have become his masters. Written in
1931. Citizens are engineered through
artificial wombs and
childhood
indoctrination programs into predetermined classes or castes based on
intelligence and labor.
Psychological
manipulation and classical conditioning are combined to make a
dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the
story's protagonist.
A Brief
History
(what we know so far)
“We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in
theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history.”
(
Madeleine
Albright)
"If you want a better world you have to create one, because if you just
sit around waiting for a better world, it will never come."
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete.” (
Buckminster Fuller)
Freedom of Information -
Problem Solving -
Information Literacy -
Media Literacy
Cabinet of Curiosities is an encyclopedic historical collection of
objects that is regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a
memory theater.
Can
the Distant Past Teach Us About Modern Crisis? (video)
FORA.tv Science Season 1 Episode 16 | 02/12/2010 | 1:29:46
Archeologist
Sander van der Leeuw explains how long-lost history can
provide new insight on current global issues.
We are Living in the Greatest of Times, and in the Worst of
Times
(wiki).
How can the world get better and at the same time get worse? Because even though millions of people had access to a better
education, there was still 100's of millions of people without
access to a quality education, along with being denied important
information and knowledge that would help them preserve life.
Knowledge
Preservation.
Preserve is to keep safe and protect from harm, decay, injury, loss, danger
or destruction.
History Preservation Directory.
History of Architecture traces the changes in
architecture
through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and
dates. The branches of architecture are civil, sacred, naval, military,
and landscape architecture.
So what happen to us? Why
do you have all these problems? It's because we played follow
the leader, but the leaders turned out to be idiots."
The past, the present and the future
looks bleak.
We were born into this, but we just got here. It's time to
clean up this mess.
"History is a documentation of some of the
things that humans have learned and experienced in our past. But
it's how you teach history that's important, because you can
easily misinform people about the truth and thus end up teaching
nothing valuable."
People have heard so many lies that
even
the truth looks like a lie.
Even when you teach students the
truth about history, they will
not fully understand it. This is because people have been lied to
in so many different ways that they will have difficulties
formulating the information into the appropriate actions.
Touché.
JFK to
911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick (youtube)
Hidden
Influence: The Rise of Collectivism (2015 Documentary) (youtube)
Bolsheviks meaning "one of the majority" (1903–1912
Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
Historical Drama is a work set in a past time period, usually used in
the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical
fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece
may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages or a specific
period such as the Roaring Twenties. (also period drama, costume drama,
and period piece).
Smedley Butler -
Follow
the Money
Warning
From History (youtube)
John Dewey was an
educational reformer whose
ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He considered
two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—to be major topics
needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental
intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to
be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by
ensuring that
there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by communication
among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being
accountable for the policies they adopt.
"History should show us how ignorant people make horrible
leaders so that students can finally become aware of how
important a good education is, of course a
good
education would first need to be defined."
"Our society is not to big to fail."
We have too much violence in
our past history and too much violence in our present day.
Humans are not violent by nature or do humans have the instinct
to be violent. So violence is mostly caused by our dysfunctional
education system, and by our dysfunctional governments, and by
societies dysfunctional belief systems, and by our entertainment
industries, and by the corporate
media that feeds on violence, and not to educate the public
about violence, but to influence violence and use violence as a
weapon of control. So all these institutions must be retooled
and updated to effectively and efficiently inform the public
that all humans are born
good-natured, and people's potential
for intelligent behavior is in their control, and people should
never relinquish this control over to corrupt institutions whose
motives are deceitful and destructive.
"Humans knew injustice before their were even words that described injustice, that's
because
we are naturally good, and smart."
"Learning about other peoples lives in
history is not just festinating, it's reveals to us that
everyone struggles before succeeding."
Biography
-
Biography TV
"100's of millions of people in the future
will look back on us and say this is the time in human history
when things really started to change. In the lifetime of one
human, people were exposed to more changes then any other time
in human history. We have not seen it all, but we have certainly
seen more then ever."
"The more you understand about the past,
the more you will be able to understand the future."
We just got here yesterday,
and if we don't preserve today's yesterdays, then tomorrow will
have no yesterday. Our ability to store information and
knowledge in our memories gives us incredible potential, and the
powers to do many things. That is why History is so important.
Without history,
we have to start all over again, because
everything that we have learned will be lost.
What if you woke up and there was no yesterdays?
"To articulate what is past does not mean to
recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it
flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question
of holding fast to a picture of the past, just as if it had unexpectedly
thrust itself, in a moment of danger, on the historical subject. The
danger threatens the stock of tradition as much as its recipients. For
both it is one and the same: handing itself over as the tool of the ruling
classes. In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition
anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it. For the
Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the
vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of
setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced
of this: that
not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious.
And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious."
Walter Benjamin 1940 (wiki).
"All life adapts to its environment, if
not, then life does not survive. But humans have the ability to
control their environment, so adapting is not our only option to
live. But sadly we are not controlling the environment in our
favor. We are lowering our chances of survival by polluting our
environment, destroying our environment, and destroying our food
chain. We are acting like suicidal maniacs because we are doing
very little to stop our abuses. We have learned, but we have not
learned fast enough. It's time to accelerate learning, instead
of accelerating death."
Twenty
One Pilots: Ride (Video) (youtube)
It's great when people come together during
emergencies, it shows our compassion, our resilience, and
our resourcefulness.
But why can't people see that we are in an emergency situation
right now? We have many problems facing us. So why can't we work
together the same way we would if any country was suffering from
a catastrophic event? How do you not feel responsible for the
lives of millions of people? They are you and you are them. How
did we become so disconnected? How did we excuse ourselves from
this reality? How did we allow ourselves to be fooled? I know
why, it's because we never learned the right things at the right
time. All our improvements and advances came from us knowing
more about things. And as we learn more we do more. Knowledge is
our greatest resource, but its being squandered and misused.
When we correct these flaws, humans will finally understand the
power and potential they have, it is the great awakening. It
will not be a quick rise in consciousness, it will be a gradual
one. Which is exactly what learning is, a gradual rise in
awareness. Seeing a little more each day, understanding a little
more each day, and then eventually, intelligence.
Path Dependence is a concept in economics and the social sciences,
referring to processes where past events or decisions constrain later
events or decisions. It can be used to refer to outcomes at a single point
in time or to long-run equilibria of a process. Path dependence has been
used to describe institutions, technical standards, patterns of economic
or social development, organizational behavior, and more.
Conformity.
Too many people seem to be narrowly
focused on the present and the near future. Not many
people are concerned with the distant future, even when they
know
how time works, people still believe they have no
connection to the future. Connection is something everyone needs
to learn, because the price we pay for immediate gratification
can extend far into the future, and the cost is far greater then
all the temporary moments of relief combined. You can either
laugh and cry on your way to hell, or work and have fun on your
way to heaven. No one is saying that life is going to be easy,
but things will not get better unless we try.
Humanities are academic disciplines that study human
culture.
Senior Citizen Stories.
You are a product of your environment. And it's time to say to
the world, I am not a product, I am human, I have a brain, and I am free
to think. And I think that we can do a lot better. Better in the choices
that we make, better in the way we communicate, and better in the way that
we treat each other. Let us begin.
Apocalypse - Doomsday - When Civilizations Fail and Collapse
Civilizations Failed mostly because people failed to
predict the
changes
that were happening in the world and happening within their own society.
And sometimes leaders were so
obsessed with keeping power, they too failed
to reason with reality, like
republicans have done in America for almost 100 years. When people are not fully
aware of the
vulnerabilities that they're experiencing, they will not be able to
prepare themselves
quick enough or
adapt quick enough. The skills and knowledge that are needed to
recognize
patterns
and to predict and be prepared, all comes from
educating the public. People need to
be
informed,
especially people who are
responsible for
managing a city, or
managing the state. And
if we don't
preserve our knowledge and learn from our mistakes, then we
condemn future generations to repeat
our mistakes, and also die or
go extinct. Ancient civilizations also failed because only the
leaders knew how to
read and write, thus when they went away, so did the
educated minds that held the city together.
Sometimes
death can happen slowly. So a
slow
death may not be noticeable to everyone.
Circling the Drain -
Crisis -
Risks -
Reliability Engineering
Nations failed and nations are still failing because of
corruption,
ignorance and
uncontrollable greed. And
greedy scumbags want
nations to fail because they can
profit from
it.
Our current civilization definitely has the
potential for success, and the potential to solve all our
problems, but we have to take
education and
public awareness
very seriously, otherwise, we will fail as we have done in the
past. But this time
100's of millions of lives are at stake, as
well as the earths ability to sustain life. If we lose now, we
lose big, we lose everything, with no second chances, games
over. We only have ourselves to blame, so it's time to face the
truth.
Extinction Event -
Human Extinction (anthropocene) -
Chain Reactions -
Toxins
Earth Changes refer to the belief that the world would soon enter on a
series of
cataclysmic events
causing major alterations in human life on the planet.
Global Warming -
Climate Change -
Water Shortages -
Crop Failures -
Pollution -
Viruses -
Magnetic Field Reversal
Single Point of Failure is a part of a
system that, if it
fails,
will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any
system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business
practice, software application, or other industrial system.
Endgame is the final stage of an extended process or course of
events.
Game Theory.
Revelatory is something pointing out or
revealing clearly about
a coming
devastation or ultimate doom.
Dystopia is a community or society that is
undesirable or frightening.
Devolution (PDF) -
Degeneration (PDF)
-
Societal Collapse (PDF) -
Macabre
Financial Collapse -
Depression -
Inflation -
Wars
Apocalypse is the complete final destruction of the world, especially
as described in the biblical book of Revelation. an event involving
destruction or damage on an awesome or
catastrophic scale.
Eschatology is predicted by
several world
religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that
negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the
world is imminent is known as apocalypticism, and over time has been held
both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults.
Eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the
final events of
history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is
commonly referred to as the "
end of the world"
or "
end time".
End Time is a belief
that world events will reach a
final climax. (also called end times,
end
of time, end of days,
last days, final days, or eschaton).
Leviathan is the largest or most massive thing of its kind. Something
extremely large and difficult to control. A monstrous sea creature
symbolizing evil in the
Old Testament. The Leviathan is often an embodiment of
chaos and threatening to
eat the damned after their life. In the end, it is annihilated.
List of Apocalyptic Films (wiki) -
List of Disaster Films (wiki)
Apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end
times/end of the age as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger.
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction is a subgenre of science
fiction, science fantasy, dystopian or horror in which the Earth's
technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse
event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an
impact event; man-made, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion;
medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or man-made; eschatological,
such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or imaginative, such
as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity,
dysgenics or alien invasion. The story may involve attempts to prevent an
apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event
itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time may
be right after the catastrophe, focusing on the
psychology of survivors,
the way to maintain the human race alive and together as one, or
considerably later, often including that the existence of pre-catastrophe
civilization has been mythologized. After apocalyptic stories often take
place in a non-technological future world or a world where only scattered
elements of society and technology remain. Various ancient societies,
including the Babylonian and Judaic, produced apocalyptic literature and
mythology which dealt with the
end of the world
and of human society, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, written c. 2000–1500
BC. Recognizable modern apocalyptic novels had existed since at least the
first third of the 19th century, when Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826)
was published. However, this form of literature gained widespread
popularity after World War II, when the possibility of global annihilation
by nuclear weapons entered the public consciousness.
The
Omega Man is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film
directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a
global pandemic. It was
written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, based on the 1954
novel I Am Legend by the American writer Richard Matheson. The film's
producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the
dystopian science-fiction film
Soylent Green in 1973. The Omega Man is the
second adaptation of Matheson's novel. The first was
The Last Man on Earth
(1964) which starred Vincent Price. A third adaptation,
I Am Legend,
starring Will Smith, was released in 2007.
It's The End Of The
World - R.E.M. (youtube) - It's the end of the world as we know it,
and I feel fine.
Death (fear of death) -
Destruction
Doomsday Cult is an expression used to describe cults that believe in
apocalypticism and millenarianism and can refer both to groups that
predict disaster and those that attempt to bring it about to destroy the
entirety of the universe.
Doomsday Device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or
weapons system — which could destroy all
life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself,
bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.
Poor Education is a
slow moving Doomsday Device.
The
Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight in 2020. The clock is
intended to represent the danger of
global catastrophe. Humanity continues to face two simultaneous
existential dangers—nuclear war and
climate change—that are
compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that
undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security
situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world
leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for
managing them to erode. The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the
public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous
technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils
we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a
man-made global catastrophe.
Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists' Science and Security Board, the clock represents an analogy
for the threat of
Global Nuclear War.
Since 2007, it has also reflected climate change and new developments in
the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to
humanity. The clock represents the hypothetical global catastrophe as
"midnight" and The Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to a
global catastrophe as a number
of "minutes" to midnight. Its original setting in 1947 was seven minutes
to midnight. It has been set backward and forward 22 times since then, the
smallest-ever number of minutes to midnight being two (in 1953 and 2018)
and the largest seventeen (in 1991). As of January 2018, the clock is set
at two minutes to midnight, due to global threat of nuclear war, the
United States not being involved in world leadership roles, and climate
change.
Prevention.
Nuclear Holocaust is a theoretical scenario involving widespread
destruction and radioactive fallout causing the collapse of civilization,
through the use of
nuclear weapons.
Under such a scenario, some or all of the Earth is made uninhabitable by
nuclear warfare in future world wars.
Treaties.
Extinction Event (Environmental Collapse)
Augury is the practice
from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed
behavior of birds.
Omen is a sign
of something about to happen, something important or bad.
List of
Planet Killers (wiki)
Ice-Nine is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt
Vonnegut, first published in 1963. It explores issues of science,
technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets
along the way.
Armageddon is the prophesied location of a
gathering of armies for a
battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or
a symbolic location. The term is also used in a generic sense to refer to
any end of the world scenario.
Can the distant past teach us about
modern crisis (FORA.tv)
When people don't know
why societies and civilizations fail, societies and civilizations will continue to fail.
All humans must fully understand the manipulative control that
money
and
power has on the mind. Wealth and Power is certainly no
different from any other disease that kills.
Knowledge is the Best Medicine, but when schools have been
infected and controlled by the same disease of power and money, schools unknowingly
spread the disease, instead of eradicating it, which caused the
death and suffering of 100's of millions of people around the
world, deaths that could have been easily avoided.
Six
Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization David
Eagleman (video 1:43)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed (wiki)
Jared Diamond: On Why Societies Collapse
(video and interactive text)
"Even with all the
failed civilizations
throughout history, we still have not found peace and stability. We have
created the illusion of peace and stability in some areas, so maybe that's
part of the problem."
Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction
of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or
political reasons. Over time, the word, usually in the adjectival form,
has also come to refer to aggressive statements or actions against any
well-established status quo. It is a frequent component of major political
or religious changes. The term does not generally encompass the specific
destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (damnatio
memoriae).
Things
are either getting better, or things are continually getting
worse...
Devolution
The End of October by Lawrence Wright is a book about a mysterious
virus that starts in Asia, sweeps across continents, cripples the health
care system, wrecks the economy, and kills people worldwide. Wright began
writing the novel in 2017 and turned in his final draft in the summer of
2019. He says the timing of publication — in the midst of the coronavirus
pandemic — is a coincidence. I researched it very carefully and I talked
to people who knew what was going to happen. So the fact that it's
unfolding as they suggested it would and as I reflected in the novel is no
surprise at all. The thing that I underestimated was the solidarity of
ordinary people to isolate themselves — sometimes against their own
government's recommendations and at great personal cost.
Archaeology (historical research)
-
Collaboration -
City Planning
-
Long Term Thinking
-
Jobs
Emergency Preparedness
-
Emergency
Shelters -
Survival Tips -
Disaster Information
Plowed - Sponge
(youtube) - Will I wake up, Is it a dream I made up, No I guess it's
reality, What will change us, Or will we mess up, Our only chance to
connect With a dream, Say a prayer for me, I'm buried by the sound,
In a world of human Wreckage, I'm lost and
I'm found, And I can't touch the Ground, I'm plowed into the sound. To see
wide open, With a head that's broken, Hang a life on a tragedy, Plow me
under the ground, That covers the message, That is the seed.
Auguries of Innocence' is a collection of conflicting situations
written as a kind of prophetic judgment. It pits the innocent against the
mature, the rich against the poor, the elite against the underprivileged,
and invites the audience to recognize the fragile beauty and balance found
within nature. Auguries of Innocence" is a poem by William Blake, from a
notebook of his now known as the Pickering Manuscript. It is assumed to
have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the
companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake. The poem
contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with
evil and corruption. It consists of 132 lines and has been published with
and without breaks dividing it into stanzas. An augury is a sign or omen.
To see a World in
a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the
palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red breast in a Cage,
Puts all Heaven in a Rage, A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons,
Shudders Hell thr' all its regions. A dog starvd at his Masters
Gate,Predicts the ruin of the State, A Horse misusd upon the Road, Calls
to Heaven for Human blood. Each outcry of the hunted Hare, A fibre from
the Brain does tear, A Skylark wounded in the wing, A Cherubim does cease
to sing, The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight, Does the Rising Sun
affright. Every Wolfs & Lions howl, Raises from Hell a Human Soul,The wild
deer, wandring here & there, Keeps the Human Soul from Care. The Lamb
misusd breeds Public Strife, And yet forgives the Butchers knife, The Bat
that flits at close of Eve, Has left the Brain that wont Believe. The Owl
that calls upon the Night, Speaks the Unbelievers fright. He who shall
hurt the little Wren, Shall never be belovd by Men. He who the Ox to wrath
has movd, Shall never be by Woman lovd. The wanton Boy that kills the Fly,
Shall feel the Spiders enmity. He who torments the Chafers Sprite, Weaves
a Bower in endless Night. The Catterpiller on the Leaf, Repeats to thee
thy Mothers grief. Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly, For the Last Judgment
draweth nigh. He who shall train the Horse to War, Shall never pass the
Polar Bar. The Beggars Dog & Widows Cat, Feed them & thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summers Song, Poison gets from Slanders tongue,
The poison of the Snake & Newt, Is the sweat of Envys Foot, The poison of
the Honey Bee, Is the Artists Jealousy. The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags,
Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags. A Truth thats told with bad intent,
Beats all the Lies you can invent. It is right it should be so, Man was
made for Joy & Woe, And when this we rightly know, Thro the World we
safely go. Joy & Woe are woven fine, A Clothing for the soul divine, Under
every grief & pine, Runs a joy with silken twine. The Babe is more than
swadling Bands, Throughout all these Human Lands, Tools were made & Born
were hands, Every Farmer Understands. Every Tear from Every Eye, Becomes a
Babe in Eternity, This is caught by Females bright, And returnd to its own
delight. The Bleat the Bark Bellow & Roar, Are Waves that Beat on Heavens
Shore, The Babe that weeps the Rod beneath, Writes Revenge in realms of
Death. The Beggars Rags fluttering in Air, Does to Rags the Heavens tear.
The Soldier armd with Sword & Gun, Palsied strikes the Summers Sun. The
poor Mans Farthing is worth more, Than all the Gold on Africs Shore. One
Mite wrung from the Labrers hands, Shall buy & sell the Misers Lands, Or
if protected from on high, Does that whole Nation sell & buy. He who mocks
the Infants Faith, Shall be mockd in Age & Death, He who shall teach the
Child to Doubt, The rotting Grave shall neer get out, He who respects the
Infants faith, Triumphs over Hell & Death. The Childs Toys & the Old Mans
Reasons, Are the Fruits of the Two seasons. The Questioner who sits so
sly, Shall never know how to Reply, He who replies to words of Doubt, Doth
put the Light of Knowledge out. The Strongest Poison ever known, Came from
Caesars Laurel Crown. Nought can Deform the Human Race, Like to the
Armours iron brace. When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow, To peaceful Arts
shall Envy Bow. A Riddle or the Crickets Cry, Is to Doubt a fit Reply. The
Emmets Inch & Eagles Mile, Make Lame Philosophy to smile. He who Doubts
from what he sees, Will neer Believe do what you Please. If the Sun & Moon
should Doubt, Theyd immediately Go out To be in a Passion you Good
may Do, But no Good if a Passion is in you. The Whore & Gambler by the
State, Licencd build that Nations Fate. The Harlots cry from Street to
Street, Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet. The Winners Shout the
Losers Curse, Dance before dead Englands Hearse. Every Night & every Morn,
Some to Misery are Born. Every Morn and every Night, Some are Born to
sweet delight, Some are Born to sweet delight, Some are Born to Endless
Night. We are led to Believe a Lie, When we see not Thro the Eye, Which
was Born in a Night to perish in a Night, When the Soul Slept in Beams of
Light, God Appears & God is Light, To those poor Souls who dwell in Night,
But does a Human Form Display, To those who Dwell in Realms of day.
Auguries of
Innocence by William Blake - Read by Roy Macready (youtube)
Auguries is an event that is experienced as
indicating important things to come.
Films of History - Videos about History
These Documentaries
below will give you some understanding about some of the things
that happened in the last 100 years, early 1900's through 2015.
Not everything that has happened has
been recorded. And not everything that has been recorded or documented
has happened, mostly because
not
everyone tells the same story in the same way. You have to know the
difference between a
story and a
full investigation into the
facts that has been
debated and
discussed so that
meaning of those
occurrences can be
understood
and
agreed to by
most people.
How Big
Oil Conquered the World (youtube, Published on Dec 27, 2015
Corbett Report)
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. | History
of US Labor Movements and their Suppression (youtube)
Published on Nov 6, 2015 | 1:49 mins. (sadly, not much has
changed, except for the truth being taught).
Plutocracy II -
Solidarity Forever (video - 1:51) -
Plutocracy III -
Class War (video - 1:55)
Labor History of the U.S. (wiki)
Jobs (employment) -
Unions -
Working Together
True
American Heroes are the Workers, and the
Human Rights
Activists.
Mary Harris Jones (wiki, Mother Jones)
Joe Hill
was a labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World,
also known as the Wobblies. He was executed.
(October 7,
1879 – November 19, 1915).
Frank Little (unionist) was an American labor leader who was lynched
in Butte, Montana. (1879 – August 1, 1917).
American Museum of Natural History (youtube channel)
Niagara: A History of The Falls (Documentary) (youtube)
UROKO - Connecting the Dots (youtube)
Pure History Features Blood On Our Hands: The English Civil War
(2014 video 1:41)
British Movietone - Historical Film Footage
AP Archive (youtube)
Looking Backward is a utopian science fiction novel that
tells the story of a hero figure named Julian West, a young American, who
towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced
sleep and wakes up 113 years later. He finds himself in the same location
(Boston, Massachusetts), but in a totally changed world: It is the year
2000, and while he was sleeping, the United States has been transformed
into a socialist utopia. By Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from
Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1888.
America's
Unofficial Religion — The War On An Idea // Empire File006 (youtube)
- Published on Oct 10, 2015 | 28:59 mins.
The Empire has a
range of
weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its
Military, and its effective
ideological
weapons.
Corporate Takeover of America
Timeline
America's Education
System Timeline of Corporate Takeover
Inventions Timeline (innovations)
History is a perfect example that clearly shows why
our
education system is defective. History does not repeat
itself, people keep making the same mistakes because schools
fail to teach history effectively and more accurately. History
is extremely valuable, but it's how you teach history, and it's
how you understand history that ends up being the most important
aspects of learning about our History. Just knowing what
happened, and just knowing when something happened is useless
information, understanding why something happened and what was
learned from it is the most valuable parts of history.
History Education Resources
History Timeline
-
American History
(wiki books) -
Timeline of United States History (wiki)
Historic Inventions (ideas that changed the world)
The People History
-
The Famous People
The 100 Most Influential Persons in History (wiki)
Create Timelines with Audio, Video and Images.
Famous Historical Events
Historical Events and Famous Birth Dates
History Orb -
History Link
Reference Book (editing history)
Teaching American History
Historical Memory Project
Random History
Battle Outerwear Replicas
Historic Clothing
Patriots History of the United States
(amazon)
Factsie
Historical Software
Dan Carlin Hardcore History Series
The Museum in the StreetsEarth History (timeline)
-
Maps of War
History and Policy
-
Power and Politics
Preservation Economic Impact Model 2.0
NCPTT | National
Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Historic
Memphis -
Demolition USA -
Salvage
(Empty Buildings)
Why do Civics Tests have Propaganda?
Whizz Past
-
Letters of Note
List of Common Misconceptions (fallacies)
History
Lab Declassification Engine turns documents into data and
develops tools to explore history. Sifting through 1.7 million
diplomatic cables from the years 1973–1977, including
330,000-odd cables in which only the metadata has been
declassified.
Big Picture
Questions
Existential
RiskFramework of the
next 10,000 Years
Friends of the
Pleistocene
Deep time of Life and Art
Past and Future
National Academy of Sciences
Rand research organization
that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make
communities throughout the world safer and more secure,
healthier and more prosperous. -
What We Know, So Far.
The
Beat Goes On (youtube) -
Sonny and Cher
(wiki)
The beat goes on, the beat goes on,
Drums keep pounding a
rhythm to the brain,
La de da de de, la de da de da.
Charleston
was once the rage, uh huh,
History has turned the page, uh huh,
The
mini skirts, the current thing, uh huh,
Teenybopper is our newborn king,
uh huh.
And the
beat goes on, the beat goes on.
Drums keep
pounding a rhythm to the brain,
La de da de de, la de da de da,
The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh,
Little girls still break
their hearts, uh huh,
And men still keep on marching off to war,
Electrically they keep a baseball score,
And the
beat goes on, the
beat goes on,
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain,
La de da de
de, la de da de da,
Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce,
Boys
keep chasing girls to get a kiss,
The cars keep going faster all the
time,
Bums still cry, "Hey buddy, have you got a dime?"
And the
beat goes on, the beat goes on,
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the
brain,
La de da de de, la de da de da,
And the beat goes on, yes,
the
beat goes on,
And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on,
The beat
goes on, and the beat goes on.
We Got The Beat -
The Go-Go's (youtube)
"Remembering a
Past Life may not be so unusual, it's called History."