Wednesday, February 29, 2012

On history...

Ever wonder how the world functioned eons ago? Whether ladies were gossiped about, and men admired? In his blog, http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2011/03/history-earliest-evidence-of-culture.htmlCulture and Society, Abbas reflects on the world that has past by us. He says, " When Archeologists do their digs looking for artifacts or fossils, they can only find what is made of stone or is preserved somehow as a fossil or frozen in ice. Accordingly we now have the most extensive collection of stone tools and weapons going back far into antiquity". In understanding history, he says, one can understand why society is the way it is. Had industrialization not occurred, society would still be a long ways from any form of advancement and ingenuity. Therefore, history and society are one and the same--two things intricately woven together in a seam that cannot be broken, not by humans, society, or even time.

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