This might seem like a moot point, it may not even seem like it needs its own thread but it does. It does because this oxymoron has been ingrained in our conscious. It's therefore a part of our political ideology, our sociology and our way of life. However, anyone would concur with the idea that if what we're doing is fundamentally flawed then society itself isn't on the right path. This is what occurred when we rejected slavery some 150+ years later.(And would've done so much earlier, if the political climate had been feasible for it) It might seem minor, but it's in the same stratosphere of being fundamentally wrong and yet ingrained. Mostly, it's ingrained from and by the Left who believe in this oxymoronic statement the most. It's a statement that you'd think you'd hear from children and it makes me go "Aww, that's nice" and pat the kid on the forehead. But when freaking adults make this statement, we have to draw the line in our collective sanity. So let me repeat: We DO NOT make history. It's "impossible" to make history. By the very definition of those two words, "make"(as in creating) and history( as in past tense). It's impossible. Not just unlikely, it's impossible. I shouldn't even have to explain why we can't "make history". The words itself when used in conjunction should clearly show a contradiction. History is past tense, it's the "event in time that already happened". You cannot "make", or "create" history since it was already made or created to begin with. Anything we do today, is done in the now. The present moment. You/we are living in today. We cannot change history, we cannot alter it. I know that many things in our history feels barbaric in comparison to our present, but it's only that way because people decided to create the future. The past is repeated, not because we "fail" to learn from it but because we keep on learning it. We're "masters" of learning history, and "making" history. But as a human society, we're very much newborn children to the concept of "creating the future". Even though that's what we're doing with each and every progressive step that we take. We're shaping the world to be as we want it to be, not how it "should have been in the past." That's why Liberals, fundamentally aren't "progressive". They care too much about how "it should have been in the past" and too little about the future. I care more about the future than the past. The past is a stigma, it's something to be forgotten. Not just for those who've committed sins, but even in general: What use does the past have to us now? To be sure, there are some things that can be used in our past to catapult us into the future, and this too is something Liberals don't quite understand. Even if progressives do have an eye on the future, rather than the past. They'd damn and condemn everything, even if it was the most logical thing to do at the time(or even today). We can only create the future by retrospection and then introspection. By acknowledging the past for what it is, and what the future can possibly be. Often, a consoling point to bullied children is that it'll "come and go", but we don't believe that as a society. Our fixation on history shows that we don't believe it'll come and go, but it'll come and stay. But that belief is wrong, time is transient. It's always on the move and if you're stagnant, time will move without you. Philosophically, politically and economically we must always challenge ourselves to move ahead. With respect to old traditions, while building new ones. True progressives build on what was already built, not tearing things down because we might not like how it worked back then. Maybe we can make it work better now. Even construction work uses past templates to create an even better, more sturdy building. But it could have only been done by using that past template. Respect the past, don't linger in it and don't try to "make it" either. Respect it, while moving forward to a brighter and stronger future.
