Oct. '72: Humanistic History: Where is all this heading? Vietnam is still raging on and the only thing that remains unchanged up to this point is the fact that all efforts at injecting a humanistic element into history have failed. Why? Our inability to even influence those very forces that have made history the train wreck that it is, as if there were no entry point into the argument, no connection at all. Either that or something very important has been consistently missing in the plan to educate the world in a new idea.
Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes has been our incessant habit of making the human "exception" the bearer of the message. While this can serve as a valuable example for others, it also tends to represent an unattainable ideal, disheartening in that it may be out of reach. Maybe what we've been failing to see is the simple fact that, almost by definition, the things achieved by those historical "exceptions" are never brought to closure for a reason - the process has no end, and any one of us can be that next "exception."
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