The "Baggage" of Yesterday?

Can we accept that the human condition is largely a result of historical circumstance and how we have coped with those circumstances? As early man was able to accumulate knowledge and develop that knowledge into learning he/she became aware of the ability to substitute imagination for fact.  We developed a way of coping that was an escape from the harshness of reality.  The ability to substitute what "was" reality for "what should have been" reality.  And to believe unquestionably in that reality. Communication relies on ones ability to interpret and repeat yesterday as though it were today.  To give yesterday validity through the reconciliation of facts and supposition.  Should we question our understanding of yesterday?  And how valid is yesterday for the opportunities of the moment?  Should we not be understanding the moment for its reality and not though the interpretation of yesterdays news? But we cannot truly understand the moment until we have let go of the past. Our opinions, prejudice, and discriminatory practices must give way to the intelligence of the unconditional reality of the moment.

If one cannot face the moment without the baggage of the past then we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.  And this is the neurosis of the human race, our penchant toward belief in the illusion of the past. The imaginary history of reconciled memory.  The conditioning of historical illusion. We know that war is a terrible tragedy, but we reconcile and justify our actions through the art of efficacious argument that does nothing more than hide the reality of unintended consequences. The deaths of the innocent and the destruction of our humanity. We must as an intelligent species realize that the past does not need to define the moment.  We can leave the baggage behind...all our beliefs about what should be and look fully at what is and make a conscious decision to move in a different direction.

Defined freedom is not freedom it is the method by which we escape the moment. If the mind can be hypnotized by systems of belief in authorities of dogma, nationalism and greed then one may go on as if all the carnage is a plan of higher calling.  But in the end one is only damning one's self to eventual extinction.  If there is a sin of humanity it is our obsession with continuity.  The continuity of belief in a past of righteousness. The illusion of the greatness of a past of hero's, saviors, and gods.  They are our weakness.  We must see them for what they are...the tools of those with agenda's of control, violence and greed.