Are You Addicted to the Past?

Interesting concept and somewhat Brave New Worldish and Orwellian. Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher would disagree when he penned his much plagarized and repeated comentary on the past and it's overall relevence to the future, "those who don't know history are destined to repeat it". Nearly a hundred years later George Santayana, philosopher, writer, wrote in his Common Sense, the Life of Reason, "Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it". And, not to beat the proverbial dead horse, two thousand years prior to the quotes above, Marcus Cicero, Roman constitutionist and philosopher stated "Those who know only their generation remains always a child". Remaining contempory within ones own era, absolutely. Discounting, destroying, and erradicating the past from the common and oral history of a people, insidious.
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