GROWING IN UNDERSTANDING AND EFFECTIVENESS IS NOT AN OVERNIGHT MATTER. IT SHOULD CONTINUE FOR OUR LIFETIME. 84:2
In order 2 continue to grow in understanding of Historical events it is imperative to avoid Presentism. *
As it removes THE CONTEXT that is necessary to understand the past.
* Presentism, that tendency to interpret past events through the lens of current values and beliefs.
“[Lets] philosophize a little bit on the question of whether this program of ours is frozen as solid as an ice cube or whether there is any elasticity in it — whether we are going to get into the business of insisting upon conformity, whether we are going to get into the business of creating an authority that says that these Steps and Traditions have to be this way.” Bill Wilson 1953
A good story needs to be simple, straightforward, and dramatic.
Bill Wilson became a master at this.
