History and its rules

Subject: History and it's rules.

It was a case of the  young and the old, the ones who have lived and experienced a past and the ones who's experience is only of today and the values, which have percolated today into what they are, in part by condemning the past in an effort to turn their backs on the past.

 I was watching a documentary set in Georgia made by a young woman who was trying to knit together the past as it was represented by her parents and grandparents and her own sense of the values of today. Georgia being the birthplace of Stalin, fell under the yoke of the USSR. The power and the repression seen through her eyes was seen totally differently by the older members of the family and the split was even more acute with her father being anti communist whilst her mother was an ardent member of the  communist party and a supporter of the USSR. 

Perspectives are what we carry around with us each day.  We perceive everything through an optic and depended not only on how you felt, or were effected by at the time but also by your power of reasoning. Some people reasoned that the communist ideology was a revelation, for the first time the ordinary people were placed on the same level as the rich. Imagine how this felt for a nation who traditionally were largely made up of serfs living under the largely despotic control of the bourgeois. Communism rejigged society and set norms which are remembered by those who lived through them for their stability in terms of work and earnings. For the older Georgian the filter of time had removed the harsher aspects of living under a dictatorial regime and replaced it with a halo, an antidote to capitalistic individualism. 
The young woman was frustrated that the old should hang on to their sense of history a history which identified them as they identified themselves with the structure which had been a part of their mental modelling. 
You can't and shouldn't throw out your history and it's values, even if these values are at odds with those of today. It pretty certain that today's values will become obsolete as a new batch of thinkers feel fit to realise that the norms of tomorrow need another face lift and once again to rewrite the rules.