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[...] It is also necessary to question the true meaning that a duty of memory may have? In the present case, remembering the past and recalling it to the living is, in this case, a step further towards the disaster of a massacre, a kind of political recovery, rather than a learning from the past to avoid making the same mistakes as our ancestors. We will see in the second part that, on the contrary, the duty of memory can have a pedagogical and educational purpose rather than a propagandistic one. [...]
[...] We can also be more optimistic about the meaning of history. We must therefore escape the absurdity that surrounds us, without being naive. Learning from our mistakes would allow us to progress even more. Thus, technological, scientific, and sociological progress would give history more meaning and give a purpose to our existence on earth. Certainly, technical progress appears over the centuries, and especially under sometimes disastrous conditions (the discovery of radioactivity by Marie Curie, which led to the A-bomb, the incommensurable progress in medicine largely due to experiments on Jews by the Nazis in extermination camps . [...]
[...] Does History have a meaning? « He who does not know from where he comes cannot know where he is going.": this quote from Otto von Bismarck can easily allow us to start our assignment because it will allow us to directly get started on the unconscious desire of the human being to know his history in order to envision his future." The word history engenders both duality and ambiguity. As much as it can be linked in its primary sense to tales and other nonsense told to the youngest, as much as it can carry a more noble, serious and undeniable meaning. [...]
[...] Technology therefore brings both the best and the worst. But yet another example, that pornography represents nearly 80% of the universe of the web, and its drifts (pedophilia, human trafficking and more), but also that social networks fuel the rise of radicalization (attacks) and new forms of violence never before seen (cyberbullying). It is therefore necessary to wonder if, on the contrary, access for all to new technologies would not be widening the gap between knowledge and ignorance? But also that humanity is regressing in a worrying way? [...]
[...] In total, since the birth of Lucy, approximately one billion people have lived on our planet, at the origin of the best but especially the worst: a panel of hundreds of thousands of millions of societies, religions, beliefs, customs, but also innovative ideas, scientific, technological, and artistic discoveries. But unfortunately, just as many conflicts, wars of prejudice, and violence, and cultures and populations have fallen into oblivion forever. We can only be defeated by such a heavy and sad reality, because the history of humanity has been punctuated by disasters. (Slavery, the Holocaust and other massacres of Native Americans/Armenians, terrorist attacks, the atomic bomb, the First and Second World Wars . [...]
