History Used To Be Philosophy

as written by historians, for whom
the main aim of writing was to prove
how right, how superior, the times
that they were writing for were
-more than life at any other time.
Particularly during times of Empire.

It was natural that their accounts were partial,
and selective, designed to quietly deny
that different presents were possible
from different accounts of the past.

Karl Marx had his short last word
on the matter of written on his grave

'The philosophers have only interpreted  the world
-the point however is to change it'.

Mahatma Ghandi did not say
'Be the change you want to see in the world',
the original was so much wordier than that.

But our dilemma about recording the change
which we embody with the planet is this;
if we change slower than our world
we have not the science for measuring
the world or ourselves. When we move
faster than our habitat and get higher up
the food chain we are equally stymied.
Our speed of change affects the planet much more
than any of our science can measure....
And our economists just won't care....