Shallow #presentism is devouring our #politics and as a nation so mired in the fight in front of us that we are struggling to envision a future for ourselves and generations to come.

But as @gothamgirlblue writes, we must ask ourselves: What's next?

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/08/has-america-given-up-on-its-future/

@CommonMugwort @lunalein @bookstodon 3/ It is a little amusing how every generation has a tendency to believe that the things that seem important to them will be considered of vital interest for ever more.

#presentism

Does a caravan pulled by 8 horses value people more than the folks on the side of the ride trying to make the pilgrimage from Europe to Jerusalem in the 8th century?

#presentism #humanity #pilgrimage #horsepower #HolyLand #Jerusalem #histodon

#presentism

Roald #Dahl book #revisions ‘absurd censorship,’ Salman #Rushdie says - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/19/roald-dahl-books-revisions-salman-rushdie/

the problem is that we have no history of using algorithms to pretend to serve as therapists, so the techbro in charge had no way of knowing what would happen when he tried it with #ChatGPT https://gizmodo.com/mental-health-therapy-app-ai-koko-chatgpt-rob-morris-1849965534 #AI #ELIZA #presentism

“The future depends on educators, in coalition with other movements to create an equitable society, to demand and make change here in the present.”

https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/fighting-back-against-the-future

#futurism #education #educators #equity #change #presentism #criticalthinking #resistance

Historians like to say that studying the past helps us understand the present. True! But for me, the events of the last few years have also helped me better understand the past. #presentism

One of the things about the #JamesSweet essay that most annoyed me was that it seemed to implicitly confine the charge of #presentism to historians of race and gender rather than of, say, international law or the history of WW II. But it‘s not like the latter are immune to reading the past throught present-day concerns.