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HUMANS-HUMANITIES-HISTORY 
Understanding humanities is difficult. It has the semblance of a huge time machine with miles of ticker tape unraveling at a pace that seems to change in speed. Each segment of its time is as complex as the human body with its life flow made up of cells, fluids, tissue, bone, nerves and brain. Humans control humanities and contribute to history.Humanities is an off-shoot of history, but history's characteristics are broad and made up of complex intermingling of the minds, places, cultures, and the physical things necessary to create and sustain life. As history evolves, there are philosophers, dreamers, politicians, creators, military minds, and common hordes of people trying to make an impact on history, or just find a niche in life. Humanities have a difficult time just to keep pace with history. The impact a person, nation or group will make in history is determined by the ability to dream and make ideas materialize. What prompts this flow of ticker tape is the power of imagination. Those who can lose themselves in dreams and suppositions can, and probably will develop the greatest impact for humanities and thus will create and develop some segment of history. The only problem with the humanities is that lessons are not learned; the same mistakes are made and the ticker tape continues to run. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, believed that the purpose of imagination was: "Not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists; Not creation,but insight." Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher, 1724-1804, perceived that the mind is not shaped by the world of experience; rather, the world of experience is shaped by the patterns set by the mind. 
Dreamers bring insight to reality!
© Don & Norma Duclon 2002-2006
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