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When will they ever learn？
About 65 years ago, an anti-war song titled 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' became a world-wide hit. The lyrics posed a When will they (humans) ever learn?
The author seemed to believe that the only way to end war is to recognize past mistakes. However, the human world, even 65 years later, remains in a world of conflict.
Is it not because humanity has failed to learn important lessons?
What is important in history is not just learning historical facts but realizing the true nature of humans who do not learn from history.
The lyrics ask when we will learn, but do not clarify what is we are supposed to learn.
What is being questioned now is what we have learned up to this point, and what we have not learned.
The current human world is a realm of evaluation and judgment based on human values.
Different countries have different thoughts and values. Each country prioritizes itself, claims its land as national territory, and continues to increase its defense budget, viewing the Earth as humanity's possession and using their freedom to think for the pursuit of national interests.
What humanity is required to do now is to re-examine and modify the way we have exercised our freedom of thought, and to reconstruct human society based on facts that are suitable for an intelligent life form.
What is a fact-based way of thinking that we have not learned?
Please read the following and think about it.
The author seemed to believe that the only way to end war is to recognize past mistakes. However, the human world, even 65 years later, remains in a world of conflict.
Is it not because humanity has failed to learn important lessons?
What is important in history is not just learning historical facts but realizing the true nature of humans who do not learn from history.
The lyrics ask when we will learn, but do not clarify what is we are supposed to learn.
What is being questioned now is what we have learned up to this point, and what we have not learned.
The current human world is a realm of evaluation and judgment based on human values.
Different countries have different thoughts and values. Each country prioritizes itself, claims its land as national territory, and continues to increase its defense budget, viewing the Earth as humanity's possession and using their freedom to think for the pursuit of national interests.
What humanity is required to do now is to re-examine and modify the way we have exercised our freedom of thought, and to reconstruct human society based on facts that are suitable for an intelligent life form.
What is a fact-based way of thinking that we have not learned?
Please read the following and think about it.
14 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2025
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