No talk of history

I don't know why some people have the need to wallow in bringing up unpleasant past events on a regular basis. I suppose it fills some need or they wouldn't do it. What is the need? Perhaps they need to feel superior in some way. Perhaps they need to feel that they should punish someone else since they themselves perceive that they are suffering some kind of persecution. Maybe it's the willingness to live in misery since they don't deserve better. Maybe the subtle idea that torturing someone else actually feels good is attractive to them.

I realize that revisiting the past can have productive ramifications if continuous improvement is the plan. Or revisiting is good if resolution of something unresolved is being achieved. But to bring the same events up on a regular basis for the same reasons to make the same points seems sadistic or masochistic.

It's like people won't accept the youth changing the language in some regard or another just because of their conditioning to other, more familiar ways. I'm with Bill Parcells. In a press conference before their first playoff game in 3 years, reporters wanted to know why the Cowboys lost 3 of the last 4 games even though they had cinched the playoffs. Parcells told them if they wanted to talk about history, they needed to go to the museum down the street. If they wanted to talk about the playoffs that 20 other teams were not getting to experience, to go ahead with questions. Go Bill. I'm all for making a better future, not bemoaning the past.