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Axiomatic

By: Maria Tumarkin
Narrated by: Maria Tumarkin
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 The past shapes the present-they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn't live in little zoo enclosures. Half the time, this past is nothing less than the beating heart of the present. So, how to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past-ours, our family's, our culture's-wields in the present?
Stories are not enough, even though they are essential. And books about history, books of psychology-the best of them take us closer, but still not close enough. Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic is a boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, reportage and meditation. It takes as its starting point five axioms: 'Time Heals All Wounds'; 'History Repeats Itself.'; 'Those Who Forget the Past are Condemned to Repeat It'; 'Give Me a Child Before the Age of Seven and I'll Give You the Woman'; and 'You Can't Enter The Same River Twice.'
These beliefs-or intuitions-about the role the past plays in our present are often evoked as if they are timeless and self-evident truths. It is precisely because they are neither, yet still we are persuaded by them, that they tell us a great deal about the forces that shape our culture and the way we live.©2021 Maria Tumarkin (P)2021 Penguin Random House Australia Essays Nonfiction
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there is so much food for thought here, it's a 6 course feast for thought. I am going to buy the paper book now so I can enjoy it again but with the sound of Maria's voice in head

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