Limited historical method

The prevailing method of viewing history is inadequate to appropriate the cultures of the past. A new posture needs to be adopted which not only looks into the past but also anticipates the future and enables full social engagement. Until this occurs, people will remain trapped in traditional practices and customs.

1. History doesn't repeat itself – historians merely repeat each other.

1. Ignorance

1. Recurrence of misapprehended world problems
2. Historical naivety

1. Sense of impermanence
2. Risk-aversion strategy
3. Restrictive social practices
4. Loss of cultural heritage
5. Failure to profit from patterns of history
6. Anachronism

1. Unethical practice in historical disciplines
2. Silence about historical situations
3. Preservation of obsolete systems
4. Historical misrepresentation
5. Global amnesia

1. End of history

1. Undertaking historical studies
2. Promoting historical studies
3. Limiting historical method
4. Freeing up historical method

1. Limitedness
2. Ignorance