Daily Blog 1

Konnor Drewen

1/24/011

Does history progress?

           

            That is an interesting question that needs an interesting answer. History does progress there is really no way to deny that, but in what way. History could progress only forward and the way most people see it, but history could progress in a way that not many people think of. Mainly because if you think of history like I do and some others do also it could drive someone insane. I think of history as somewhat if a river. You see the whole river is there, it does not matter at what point you are on the river it is still ahead of you and behind you. I think that people are at all points of this river, to say it in another way all points in history exist at this very moment, but only to the people living in that point can tell. To them that is their point in the river and we are in the future. In the same way the future exists and to them we are in the past and it just goes on and on in the same way in both directions forward in history and backward in history. The reason that this is so hard to comprehend to most people is because this means that they exist now but they also exist in the same way two years ago and two years in the future. If you think of history the way not do you think of it as the river then is means that a person exists in a multitude of parallel universes and histories where, if they are say fifteen in this history, they could be ten in another or thirty in a different one. That is the way I see history and the way it progresses.