The Future III

 

Restless Farewell

But to remain as friends
You need the time to make amends
And stay behind
And since my feet are now fast
And point away from the past
I'll bid farewell and be down the line

MAGA? How about pointing AWAY from the past.

The lyric above is by 2016 Nobel Laurate Bob Dylan. The past is the choices that have already been made. The future is the choices that have yet to be made. The ratio of choices to be made in the future to the choices already made in the past is enormous, which means that the future is bigger than the past. But the fact that the past appears bigger than the future does not mean that you should choose the past, any more than the larger nickel is worth more than the smaller  dime. Despite what a toddler may think, a dime is worth more than a nickel.  If your feet are going to be fast, you can acknowledge the past, but remember that your feet point away from the past. And anyway you can’t revisit the past and change the choices that have been made. That is why Make America Great Again, MAGA, is so wrong headed. America has Always been GREAT  To embrace the future of America is to make it greater, not to only relive its past.

You can acknowledge the past and learn from it, but you can’t relive it. History does not repeat, but it sure does rhyme. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.