Why do we research history?

 Why do we research history?

We should learn from things that were made in past. 

Why do we research history? History is a series of things that happened in the past. Those things that are happened in history can use to make models for the future. Research of history is the thing. That purpose is to find the things that will happen in the future. The key question in the history research is to find answers for the questions like "what made something happen"? 

What mistakes were made in cases that are under the research? And what did people learn about those cases? Another thing is that that the purpose of the research of history is to find the answer to the question "what should we do in similar cases"? What went wrong? And what went right? 

When we are thinking about questions like "which side had better generals Confederate or Union side in the United States civil war?". We must realize that the thing that fights is the entirety. Even the best generals in the world cannot win battles alone. In those cases also henchmen are playing roles. If the henchmen don't have the equipment, will, or skills to use weapons. The battle is lost. 

When we are thinking questions "what should we do" in those cases when something has happened. We must remember that when we are looking at history. We might know all answers. We might think that the King of Sweden Charles XII of Sweden. Should not advance to Poltava, where he faced Peter the Great army. 

But the King of Sweden didn't have the same knowledge that we have today. Today we can go to the library and find history books that are telling about the history of Sweden. And there are all answers. But Charles XII acted by using the information that he had. And that was the mistake. 

When we are looking at history we are easy to justify people. Those people made mistakes. And we would be different. And at this point, I must say one thing. In history, people acted by using the information that they had. They lived in different types of society. When they made their decisions they cannot look at results from the library. 

Today history repeats itself. We are thinking that joining the common currency of the European Union Euro was a mistake. The fact is that the Euro planned to be the virtual currency. Which purpose was to help to compile prices. But it turned to real currency. When countries joined the Euro nobody criticized that thing. There was the biggest boom in the history of Europe.

And people wanted to join that boom. But they forgot that even the biggest and strongest economies will face bear markets. So when the bear markets begin that kind of thing will cause things like bankruptcies and unemployment. What do we learn about Euro? When we are middle of the booms we can join everything. But when the boom is over. We still are in the system. 

We can of course, always step out from Euro. That kind of signal would please Russian leaders very much. When we joined Euro nobody said anything against that decision. But now Euro is facing criticism. And of course, we are independent nations who can always start to think about their national interest. We all can step out from Euro immediately, and maybe we are facing a new bull market. But then sooner or later our economy will face a bear market. 

And in that case, we can search for friends. Of course, we can always let those loans that are taken from the EU without paying and then ask for more loans. We have the right to do that thing. But when we are asking for money. There should be somebody willing to offer that money to us. The thing is that when we are looking at history the best wisdom is the hindsight is the best wisdom. 

Now, today we can say wisely. We should not ever join Euro. We made a big mistake wise men say. But we always make mistakes. Only people who are not making anything are not making mistakes. And that is the fact. When we joined Euro nobody saw anything negative about that thing. Or those people said nothing against that thing. Where were the wise men when those political leaders made that decision?

Why did they keep their mouth shut? Why didn't they offer their advice when the nation joined Euro? Now the media is full of advisors who are telling that the Euro was the mistake? 

Today we can say that Euro should remain as the virtual currency. But people made the decision. By using information that was in use at that time. It's too late to cry. We are in Euro and that's it. And then we can make new decisions. 

Technology is advancing. And that brings new challenges and opportunities. 

Sometimes I have thought about what kind of decisions the King of Sweden Charles XII would make if that person had recon satellites? What if he would get confirmed information of his enemies?

At this point, I must say that we should not stare at history too much. Things like artificial intelligence are making it possible to return Euro to virtual currency or even delete that currency. The AI-based solutions offer possible to show the prices in multiple currencies. The modern internet has more capacity than some year 2000 version. And that thing makes it possible to make many things that were impossible in the year 1999. 

And if somebody is willing to pay with some other currency there is enough to put the bank card in the payment system. Then the system would change the price to the currency. That is in use in the country where the bank card is offered. The that we are living in the new era of history. And that era is full of threats and possibilities. Things like quantum computers would revolutionize data processing. And that is the thing that we should benefit more from in our life. Data processing and the internet are tools that began the revolution in the world. And that revolution continues today.

But when we are making decisions we should understand that they all have effects. We cannot make decisions undone. The decisions are made by using data. That was in use at that time.  And that's it. We cannot retake time and make them undone. But maybe we can learn something from history. And maybe, we should listen to more people when we are making some decisions in tomorrow world. And then we must say that somebody will pay the price. When some person gets something. That affects everything. 

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Bubbles and knowledge.

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The knowledge helps people break the bubble, where they are covered is the idea of many paintings and other art. But as we know the knowledge has many limits. And the scientific proof is the different thing, then the common word "knowledge". We all know that there were stories about ancient pearls of wisdom and other things, what seems very interesting and impressive. For modern people, many of those things are common things, what bases in the physical or chemical phenomenon.


But in fact, some of those things are often out of common knowledge, because they belonging in some part of the special engineering or they just look like different, what those inventions were in a long time ago. Here I mean, that some of those inventions are still in use, but they look like different, and sometimes the drawing skills of the ancient painter or drawer were not so good, and they didn't use CAD-programs for their work, and the perspective was not commonly known in the ancient times.


People don't normally think that something, what was the impressive thing in the history, are common things for the people, who live in the modern times. Here we normally make mistake. When we are thinking, that some person has made the crystal or glass bubble, where that person could observe undersea life, we somehow automatically think that this person might also have aircraft and another kind of things. Sometimes we don't separate those things like the different and individual inventions.


We just laugh for people, who are talking about ancient pearls of wisdom and knowledge, when they mean that the ancient Greeks might know that when the cask is turned upside down, would there be the air bubble, what allowed those people stay underwater longer time than usual, and if there would be connected two tubes, what another is used incoming and another is used for outgoing air, would that make this device more effective. And here we must say, that another pipe can be closed by using the finger.


But if that tube is equipped with the carbon filter, would that cause that the person could stay underwater in the long period. And when we are coming back to the crystal bubble, on the floor of that bubble can put the carbon sack, what helps to keep the air dry. The carbon can reduce other carbon, and this means it would break carbon dioxide molecules, and if the air cleaner will be wanted to make more effective, the air can be pumped thru the carbon filter by using an air pump.


And maybe some scientists tested that equipment in a long time ago. Those bubbles could be ideal places for meetings because nobody would those persons. The bubble can be dropped to the water upside down and the people would stand on the podium, what is made of wood, and that structure helps to keep them dry. There would be left little water on the bottom of the bubble, but the podium would help to keep shoes dry.

There are many layers in the Kalevala.

Leaving of Vainamoinen
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
(C.1893-1894)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The symbolism of Finland national epos Kalevala has many layers, and there would not be possible to make one conclusion or analyzes of that book. In the painting above the text is the idea, what people might always see. In this picture the hero of Kalevala, Vainamoinen leaves his community by flying boat. There is more well known painting about this same theme, but this painting is made with watercolor, and it is also made by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. In this portrait, the Vainamoinen would be like the young boy, who gets his first car. The car feels like some kind of spacecraft or something else like it.


Every young man wants own car, and when the person would begin first time to drive that vehicle, it would feel like driving the spacecraft. The starting of the engine would be like using ion motors in some fictional spacecraft. And in this picture seems like Vainamoinen is using some kind of UFO to leaving the place, where this man has stayed.


This watercolor painting is not the same thing as the well-known aquarelle, and in this watercolor work, the left of the community would be looking like little bit different way. In this painting might be a man, who finally made his services for community end, and this thing caused the situation, that everything felt so light. The flying boat, what hangs on the top of the smoke would be the opportunity to begin own life without debts.

The moan of the sail
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
(1907)

When Vainamoinen was accomplished his mission, would the next adventures wait for that man, and this is also the death of this person. In the campfire would that man, who can be some engineer, who was in the long-term project and hired to help the villagers, finishes his job. And this is the end of his services. After this, the villagers must hire another wise man for projects.


In the Kalevala same texts symbolizes many things. One could be some kind of building project. In the beginning is the idea of the project. And then the project would continue. There would be fighting against the time, but then there would be painting, where is the wreck of the boat. This project would continue to the point, that the wrecks will be collected from the building area. And at least the crew of the project would leave the site. Those people were well-known characters in that area, and then their mission is accomplished. Some of them would stay in people mind longer than others, and we must say that there are many things in Kalevala, what will make it one of the unique and fascinated books in the world.

Sources:

Picture 1.

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?action=image&iid=J0137500&profile=CC0topicartworkbignew

Picture 2:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Gallen-Kallela%2C_Purren_valitus.jpg/1200px-Gallen-Kallela%2C_Purren_valitus.jpg

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