The World Needs a Renaissance, Not a Reset II: Will the Prometheans Finally Break the Chains?

In the beginning, seeing they saw amiss,
And hearing heard not, but, like phantoms huddled
In dreams, the perplexed story of their days
confounded;

Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus

As we began exploring in the first part of our series, writing a new chapter in one’s life begins by first understanding what has happened up until that moment. What we believe our story to be in many ways determines how we choose to write the next chapters. Today, this is perhaps nowhere clearer than in the United States, which has become the flash-point of a broader ideological war in which a re-definition of the past lies at the heart of the battle to shape the future. These developments serve as a great reminder that history is not something in the past—our understanding of history bears directly on our sense of self and the actions we take in the present. In a word: our understanding of history not only informs our sense of where we came from, but where we think we should be going.

Therefore, in order to cut thr…