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Does history progress? 


In my opinion history is not like technology in that one generation builds upon it while the next generation continues to improve upon it. This is primarily because technology, unlike history, involves a material, tangible object to continually improvise. History in it of itself, is really only a record of the past--hence the expression history is bound to repeat itself without awareness of it. Essentially, we are fundamentally the same people as hundreds of years ago. With the same capacity for irrationality. The only difference is that now there is a broader array of access to education, reducing the amount of irrationality. So in short when it comes to ideas and rational behavior sometimes "newer" is not necessarily, "better," but is instead just, "different." So history is just recorded events and we can learn from them but we can never make history "better". There are always good events and bad events that had happened in history. Meaning that good and bad effects can come form them. In reality there always going to be more than one effect form one cause.