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Do you agree or disagree?
Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. |
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Most of people say that past tells us a lot. They argue that they can learn many lessons from the past and those are beneficial to prepare the future. It is true that history gives us many fact( teaches us many facts), but I strongly believe that past is just past, not a profitable one for us to live present. That is because there have been many repeated social and political events and we live in a fast changing society that is totally different from the past.
If people had been given many lessons from the past, there should be no wars, accidents, and famine. However, looking around the world, they are still existing and damaging to a lot of people. In this sense, people cannot be sure that they have learned the history and tried to prevent negative events which once had occurred. Iraq war, for example, best explains my view. All people know that war is terrible and should be avoided in order to keep peace of the world. Nevertheless, human`s greed and aggressive nature triggered another war, causing massacre and destroying villages in that region, Iraq. This fact indicates that knowing the past is not valuable to people for the reason of incessant series of horrible wars and incidents.
(The incessant series of wars and horrible incidents related proves that knowing the past is not valuable for people.)
In addition, today's world is a ever-changing society, and people are struggling to be successful to keep their steps with the social tendency. Suppose that a person is equipped with old fashioned skills, such as the way to make a jar with mud and the way to use Morse code. Even one company would not want to hire him and he would be falling behind the pace of the world, because these qualities are not applicable to any fields of society any longer. In order to live properly in this modern world, we need to be more changable and flexible than ever before, coupled with honing our competency. It is obvious that different life styles require different approaches to life so as to make it easier to live in this era.
To sum up, I argue that learning about the previous life is not that much advantageous than we expect because just learning cannot prevent serious problems ultimately, and is not useful in the real world. Some people might say that history means a lot to them for reason of giving opportunity of looking back.( for it gives opportunities to look back.) However, they have to remember (the fact) that we are going toward the future, not past. (not back to the past)
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