Problem
Failure to profit from patterns of history
Other Names:
Denial of the lessons of historyFailure of opposing groups to appropriate the wisdom of the past
Perceived irrelevance of past experience
Nature:
Historical research has failed to illuminate the patterns of history so that everyone may utilize the significant lessons of the past. People thus see no meaning in the past and are ignorant of their heritage. This isolates them in the present without an historical or a future context. The past needs to be viewed in such a way that people can understand who they are now and how best to move into the future.
Narrower Problems:
Historical naivety Related Problems:
End of history Aggravates:
Insufficient common experienceParalysis of elders faced with the futureRecurrence of misapprehended world problemsHuman wisdom considered unrelated to daily lifeCommemoration of dishonourable historical eventsLimit to collective comprehension span in societal learning Strategies:
Remembering lessons of historyProfiting from patterns of historyDenying lessons of historyLiving by past experience Subject(s):
Commerce → FinanceDesign → Patterns
Education → Educational level
History → History
Societal Problems → Deprivation
Societal Problems → Failure
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
28.10.2020 – 15:59 CET