xankarn, 4 months ago

Individuals and groups perceive the world in demonstrably different ways depending on what knowledge of the past they have accumulated.

If mescaline wipes clean the "doors of perception," as Aldous Huxley surmised, allowing those who imbibe it an opportunity to see the world as it really is, then what world might one see when dosed on history?

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xankarn, 4 months ago

Controlled psychological testing has consistently demonstrated that history alters the perception (opens the eyes?) of those who are more attuned to it, giving them a different—perhaps better—vantage on the world, compared to those who are less attuned to documented historical knowledge (i.e., historically uninformed).

To be ignorant of the past is to live, perceptually, in a different world than the one reserved for those more fully steeped in historical veracity.

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xankarn, 4 months ago

This is nowhere clearer than in the realm of race and in regard to the history of racial prejudice, discrimination, and violence.

To understand the history of race in America is to see the country in its current iteration altogether differently than those lack such knowledge.

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xankarn, 4 months ago

You can read about some of the science on history and perception here (with some criticisms):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_hypothesis#:~:text=The%20Marley%20hypothesis%20is%20a,and%20awareness%20of%20racial%20history.
But what concerns at present me are the implications. Stay tuned...

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