History is iterative

 

History repeats itself first as tragedy then farce said Marx. How incapable must humans be if they are incapacitated to learn from experience or are unable to perceive their reality? Life learns from experience and every life form evolves with iterative involvement with its surrounding. Our senses are attuned to perceive. Every cell is open to experience the surrounding to survive. It learns, assimilates and grows. This diversity of life wouldn’t be possible if life was isolated from realities of its existence. Even mutation, the one that are successful hence replicated, is a not really a blind shot. It’s a sprint for survival that is very much hinged to existence. It’s a determined attempt to evolve, to latch the chaos, the potentialities and opportunities to survive and thrive. Life is in continuous iterative relation with its reality -immediacy of habitat and constancy of natural laws and limitations. 

History repeats itself if it is moving in a circle and is isolated from reality. History therefore can repeat if societies are incapable or are incapacitated to learn. This can only happen when societies nurture systems that insulate them from reality. Therefore, individually we perceive the threat while collectively the system makes us incapable to respond. We are incapacitated to trust our senses or use our mental faculties. If the reality becomes too oppressive we get into survival mode, it’s a short-term reaction to maintain the status quo that favours the powerful. The impasse Homo sapiens face is very much due to this disconnect. Religion and market are systems that worked for short term gains, its exaggerations and myth building enterprise are having serious ramifications with its overwhelming influence. Systems like religion that came into existence when humans rode donkeys, scooped water from nearest pit to drink, shat in the corner and sat around fire in caves open to elements, created myths to fill in the lack of knowledge and to feel secure while they perished from minor infections deemed as wrath, have become anachronistic nuisance that attracts dead minds and putrefied souls. Ridiculous holy books (that are understandings in its historical cultural context with some insights) have become sites for sickening sanctimony that attracts rabidity not seen in decent humans. The situation is dire. Humanity is on the verge of collapse due to ever encroaching signs of catastrophic reality that is framing the bleak future. The absurd show of grand conceptions cannot go on.          

For history to not repeat and end itself societies must invest on systems that are vibrant and attuned to senses and sophisticated to nurture the symbiotic relation with surrounding. It must evolve to be responsible and perceptive part of greater whole.