DEACON 11: History

DEACON 11
“History”

I thought this topic would be quite interesting and I wondered how he was going to approach it. It’s a multi-layered subject: confusing, confounding and one usually…perhaps because of the same reasons…mostly ignored by many. Perhaps that is why we are condemned to repeat it. I am talking about history…

And then he said:

Most of us think of history as a book that contains a record of things, events, people, that happened and that lived in the past. I can imagine that a lot of folk think of history as a story that narrates, with names and dates, the events of other times. Well, I think that to those who think of history like this, then to them history is dead and static. It is just a receptacle of previous news, like yesterday’s newspapers since one cannot change the past, it’s just there to be read and remembered or ignored and forgotten.

But I want you to be aware that history is not just the written (or oral) record of past events and people. That is one aspect of history. The other is dynamic. And we are making it…history…at this very moment. History is the struggle of man to attain his goals in society, to decide and elect his government and pursue happiness and fulfilment in life. History is made as we develop industry, agriculture, philosophy, and even, yes of course, the arts.

History is the clashes between good and evil that we experience in the world at all times. Presently our history is succumbing to evil dictators and rising with the fight for liberation. History is being made by the refugee attempting to reach lands of opportunity and also by the repressive forces trying to keep him away.

Conflict in society creates history. The struggle of the poor on the one side and the desire of the rich to further enrich themselves. The very rich are today rising higher and higher on the shoulders of the very poor, the middle class and the alienated, downtrodden ones of our cities and countries. This is the current state of history. Class struggles have always created history, and that translates to our current state of affairs. We are seeing how chauvinism, radical patriotism, and fanaticism, in otherwise cultured and educated societies, is bringing to the forefront (electing) ignorant, albeit charismatic, leaders that have not learned from the past. Or is it that they wish to emulate some of the more negative aspects of that past? And these so-called leaders are not creating history, on the contrary, due to their anachronistic nature, they are destroying the history that had been done.

There is an absolute good and an absolute bad. Of this have no doubt. And the historical record demonstrates it. This good and this bad, which have nothing to do with the consequences of our actions, also determines history. When a society is being led away from the path of goodness, it becomes conflicted. The people seek answers, reasons and logic but they do not get the truth, they get twisted and perverse lies. The absolutes of good and bad are replaced with an ideology that eliminates them simply by telling, or/commanding, people to know that absolutes do not exist.

So one can say that history is being made by the societal manipulations of ruthless leaders. As well as by schizophrenogenic tyrants who would turn history upside down and sacrifice the future of society…and the world, perhaps…just to provide for themselves positions of power ad perpetuam. We must always remember that dictators and tyrants always hate the people they rule over. And that they have always used history to attempt to prove to the people that they are right and just.

Yet, I must conclude that although history can be confusing, it is not. In essence, God has created Heaven and Earth; He alone rules history. That means all of history, the one we are making…because we have free will…and the history that has been written. God reminded the Hebrew people, through Moses, not to forget their history and not to forget who is their God.

Then why are “they” now trying to make us forget who God is? And “they” are those that are trying to guide and influence us through political parties, music, movies, plays, video games, everything! Could they be trying to make history and rule over it?

Valencia, España, 10th of March 2025, Francisco Bravo Cabrera

«History is as abstract as classical music, as figurative as a Picasso and as frail as the bones in the wings of a hummingbird.» (F. Bravo Cabrera)