[0408] Issue 大暴走

[44] 1. Indeed, studying the history can help us to consider the decision making in many aspect, but it can not always make us choose the best answer. On the ond hand, the history is the accumulation of the every little fragement of the ancestors: how they think, how the make decision, what they consider, why they choose the answer and how they react to every unknown response. By camparison between our own situation and the ancestors, we can find our disadvantage and the important points we neglected, just like we are standing in front of a mirror.

On the other hand, there is almost nothing behind the stories which the history tells. What we meet is always met by somebody before. Just as Willa Cather, .... , put it, "There are two or three human stories, and they go on repeating as firecely as if they had never happened before." If we can

However, the decision making is influenced by many aspects, such as our values, our targets of life, or our family. It is not a simple yes-or-no question. Maybe we can find out what is right answer from the history, but we still have to choose the other one, because we live in the current, not in the history. It is real life. But we would never have the chance to choose the best answer, if we never learn something from the history.

To sum up, the history is good reference of our life. We can learn many things from it,

【延伸主題】

[93].
(1) 許多歷史教訓尚未與我們相關，但可以提供我們做為未來的參考。
(2) 即使與現在的生活不相關，但他仍提供我們作為思考的素材。
(3)

[110].
(1) 不能掌握歷史的，也無法掌握現在和過去。過去的錯誤只會一再發生。
(2) 歷史的好處：是一面鏡子，讓我們知道該怎麼做事。
(3) 歷史並不一定會讓我們作正確決定，但不瞭解歷史，我們很容易做出錯誤決定。

[115]. （只考過一次，大概不用管了）
(1) 過去不能預示未來，但他提供我們在面對未來時的參考之一。
(2) 無法瞭解掌握過去的人，更難以掌握未來。