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quote meaning
what does this mean? I read it in someones blog and im trying to figure out what it is trying to say.:
Historical Thinking requires us to reconcile two contradictory positions: first, that our established modes of thinking are an inheritance that cannot be sloughed off, and, second, that if we make no attempt to slough them off, we are doomed to a mind-numbing presentism that reads the present onto the past
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I'm just gonna attempt to interpret it, ok? I believe in plain english it is trying to say "to think historically, one must contradict himself. On one hand, he has to realize that the way he sees things are the way he was TAUGHT to see them, and he cannot change that. On the other hand, if he doesn't attempt to change them, he is a fool who will never move forward in life." My interpretation. :)
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