This is important, because our past, even though it is displayed in museums, is no more a money making instrument nor a scientific object than contemporary cultures are. Studying a work of art or literature as a scientist will not benefit us in any way, because the work remains outside ourselves, a stranger to ourselves. If we want to reconnect to our traditions, the best of them at least, museums, beautiful old cities, and doctoral dissertations will be of little use, because they turn history into the past, i.e., a gone era, something remote. Rather, however much certain aspects of our culture may change, history must be living in us as it was to our fathers, and as it should be to our children. So long as we will not remember that, we may as well suffer from an identity crisis due to our lack of historicity.
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