The end of history

Humans appear to hold history as valuable or at least useful. History, however, likely has a negative value for humans as it seems to constrain present thoughts or bias future actions. This is likely a result of high utility of the same at inception with little preceding data. However, the incremental low utility of history was lost on humans trying to imbibe every bit of it.

As literature, art and even science muddle human thoughts, as those present attribute indefensible value to ancestral ideas, as education thrive at the cost of emerging thoughts, as history help to divide and conquer based on color, religion and class, as time erect walls to separate clans and cliques, as past gods clash with the the more recent godless, as the old assert historical know-how and the young reject it, as electronic words trump bound books, it is increasingly clear that the past has no meaning.

Why does the past perpetuate itself? Is it because humans provide the past with meaning? Is it because the existence of the human requires the baggage of the past? Could there be humans without a past? Is there any information in the past that is useful? If not, why do most find it difficult to let go?

The end of history is near.