The teaching of non-Revisionist history (historical revisionism is the re-interpretation of historical accounts) should be part of every curriculum throughout every school and university in the land.
As each generation passes, the record of their times must not pass with them into oblivion. Young people should be able to feel and understand the burdens, the mistakes and the achievements that their predecessors dealt with.
Faced as they will be with their own challenges, they will then come upon them hopefully equipped with some in-depth knowledge of the successes and failures of the past. To replicate the former and dodge the latter will be a passport into their, hopefully, better future.
I say this because the older I get the more acute becomes a sense of my own mortality. This is perfectly normal and inevitable. I have found that understanding and accepting this eases or eliminates any innate fears and frees the mind to look into the future with a much broader and far less selfish perspective.
Conclusion: The prime function of each generation is to prepare the next for the trials and tribulations they will most certainly face. That is the reality of life for a sentient species and it must not be evaded, misrepresented or understated, but if it is it will be the following younger generations who will pay the ultimate price – life is hard and now becoming harder and they will not grow old to teach the next.
No doubt the current indoctrinated and benighted snowflake-safe space generation will be the first to fall; perhaps that is the ultimate objective of their tutors. It is very easy to fall into slavery of the mind or body, or both, but damned hard, sometimes impossible, to escape it.
~~Seneca III
Colossal Failure of Government
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