Guest guest Posted February 12, 2006 Report Posted February 12, 2006 Toni says: >>How will we ever learn from history if we do not learn from the experiences of those who lived through it?<< --I think the problem is that different social networks learn from different historical voices. Jews and Muslims seem to have a problem mourning the other side's suffering. Perhaps when political conflicts die down (however much they must be inflamed to bring the necessary global focus to resolve them) there will be more cross-cultural hearing of voices, and fewer people using the ghosts of history selectively to attack some other group. We really need a global mourning ritual, since the suffering of one group is now so deeply tied to the suffering of others. That would not have to override group identity, it would only have to make all the dead real to us, rather than only the dead who shared our particular cultural threads. What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos Quote
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