Histoy History History!

Today Lindsey, Rachel, and I met up at Expresso Royale to discuss Fasolt. We pretty much all came with the same concept in mind of what Fasolt was trying to say. in our every day life we take our own perspective into things. Everyone has a different way of viewing their own history and how they tell it. We (people) look at history in many different views because you can't help but to put your own opinions into things/events. "none can claim to represent the line diving the present from the past. if the present could really be divided from the past at all, it would have to be divided by as many lines as there are present moments: not one line between one present and one past, but an infinity of lines between an infinity of presents and an infinity of past, one for each incremental movement into the future." (67) So now that you know what past and present is where do you draw the line? well the line is drawn different by everyone. like Fosalt is trying to say there wouldn't be a specific line drawn because there is just so much information and history that a line can be drawn through. " The present is the source; we live in it. and as the present is experienced, it changes." (65) which that makes history, but our own kind of history. " No state could be sovereign if its inhabitants lacked the ability to change a course of action adopted by their forefathers in the past, or even one to which they once committed themselves." (65) Lindsey, Rachel, and I agreed that this relates to Hegel and how one event/idea or whatever it is moves us/ the world towards freedom and what distinguishes between past and present is politics, who governs who. " What changes is not merely what we think, or how we think, or what we mean by thinking, but that faculty itself by means of which we think that we think." (84)