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Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
To claim that knowing about the past cannot help people in the present time to take important decisions, as the statement above does, is generally an untenable claim. In myriads of cases, knowing about the past makes us aware to take important decisions and only it is in exceptional cases that such a knowledge might not be helpful.
To begin with, there are some newly found phenomena that knowing about the past cannot help the people living today. There are times that the gap between generations is unbridgeable regarding certain aspects, especially with the advent of the virtual space in th...
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