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Michael Condon

History Remembered, History Forgotten

Searchable Keywords

history, research, analysis

Specialties or Categories of Interest

Historical research, analysis and composition.

Experience, Credits, and/or Awards

Working historian for 19 years.

Summary

In History Remembered, History Forgotten, you will see the wrong turns Western thought has taken, and why these intellectual missteps have served to utterly blind these historians' view of humanity's future. Even as these errors have already impaired their ability to accurately gauge the present.

From The Book

More than academic speculation, the search for answers is made with the understanding that even as there are certain historical circumstances which permit the rise of democracy, so must there also be conditions leading to its decay. Such a search is joined, and the historical conditions which threaten democratic government identified, in my book History Remembered, History Forgotten.

The story begins with the end of World War Two and the onset of the Cold War, as the United States formed alliances and enacted national policies designed to thwart Soviet strategic superiority on post-war earth. These are the years that signaled a critical crossroads in U.S. history, for the path chosen would unavoidably serve- as the "hot" war had- either to enhance or undermine democratic government.

Enacted by Congress in 1958 was the National Defense Education Act, intended to fund schools to step-up science and math education and increase the training of more scientists and engineers. Integral to this educational climate, and to science particularly, were the theories of materialism- the assumption that all that exists is either matter, or some function or property of matter- and Darwinian evolution.

Because history and philosophy eventually came to be eclipsed in such a scientifically oriented educational climate, it thus went unnoticed in the years following that, historically, these theories had earlier proved essential to the formation of the Soviet and Nazi totalitarian governments. And, philosophically, these theories could- using the empirical evidence of the physical universe- be clearly disproved.

In History Remembered, History Forgotten I demonstrate both of these facts, and proceed from there to show that to the extent U.S. education and science uphold these dubious theories, democratic government, society- indeed, the scientific method itself- are imperiled.

To be sure, as these ideas had earlier helped to foster in the human mind empirical and a posteriori methods, materialism and evolution proved conceptually useful during the Enlightenment transition from Medieval to Modern thought. Yet the elevation of these ideas from working hypotheses to inviolable scientific laws has, ironically, made the modern mind increasingly averse to both reason and empiricism.

Indeed, the maintenance of materialism and evolution has, paradoxically, served to promote irrationalism.

Originally, a material worldview simply acknowledged that all the observable and measurable things in the universe are material objects. Later, however, this view came to embrace the scientific belief that all objects in the universe are material objects.

It was a bold, yet scientifically tenuous- indeed, irrational- leap for human thought. Predictably, the infusion of such irrationalism into the political arena eventually tended to make Western thought antagonistic to rationalism and the rational principles of democratic government. Hence there followed ideology, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and total war.

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Copyright 2006-2007, Michael Condon (Expires October 18, 2008)

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