ISSUE120过去对现在没有指导作用

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这篇很难展开啊。有没有除了社会问题根深蒂固之外的见解呢？ 求讨论。
TOPIC: ISSUE120 - "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
WORDS: 557
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-7-25 16:08:18

Are the history and previous experience meaningless for people living in the new and complex modern society? In my point of view, no, I believe looking back absolutely help us better understanding of the present and guide us in the future.

Every time I confront problems in my academic learning and life choices, I would call my parents ask their opinions about the dilemma, because I think the fundamental problems about choices and lives changes little from the past to the present. Likewise, history and the past experience are vivid stories and useful direction about how to conduct with the current problems. Americans can't help to stuck in a deep fear when they are reminded the disaster of 911 which acclaim that the safest place turns out a dangerous place as the horrible war field in Mideast. Numerous nations through history encounter the strong fear and sorrow as modern Americans feel about 911, for example, Jews in 1930s faced slaughter of Hitler's fascism, they did fear; Chinese people, who got through the Nanjin holocaust, undoubtedly feel chilly about Japanese's cruelty; and even Japanese people encounter the similar horror after the explosion of atomic bomb. As many problems today are rooted in the negative part of humanities, such as greedy and selfishness. Therefore, looking back to the past provide us comforts and resonance about disasters.

Furthermore, history, filled with how people struggle through the difficulties, assists modern people with methods of dealing similar problems as well as gives them innovations about settling unprecedented messes. For example, economists tell us the development of economy has cycle, which is depression after a booming period. Then, to clarify the economy crisis happened in Greece, Europe, in 2009 and to bring the whole world business back to healthy state, the government administrative, the executives of international bankers or companies will gain a lot of wisdom if they seek for history textbooks--the Asian economy crisis in 2003 and the collapse of Japan's economy in 1996. Because similar mistakes always recur in historical stage, locating the fundamental mistake and learning from the previous is an effective way to deal with troubles in modern society. That's how Franklin Roosevelt, the president of America, successfully saves United States get rid of the Great Depression by adopting the experience of national control economy in Soviet and China.

However, without distinguishing the history fancy from the complexity of modern society, people not only can hardly solve problems but also mislead the trend into a more severe crisis. For instance, the hacking crime becomes more and more striking and wise governments prefer to utilize laws and regulation to relieve such crimes. Because of the new characteristics of Internet crimes, such as easy to hide, severe and widespread results, and hard to find, hacking crime cannot blame to the websites and it cannot be solved by simply emphasizing the civilians' morality, as what do with other mass media. Actually, mechanically applying a theory rarely make sense in flexible and developing society.

In a nutshell, scrutinizing history, people will find insights about the unchanging causes of different social problems and these understanding are significant for the final solution someday in the future. The comforts, provided by history stories, greatly encourage modern citizens and guide them to right directions, though these comforts probably has little practical effects in advances of humanity.

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开头的问句我认为没必要写上。能用一句话表达的东西没必要用两句话来表达。我个人比较喜欢简单明了的开头。

文章的第一个意群段首先以自己的亲身经历展开，说明过去对现在是有用的。并以此推及到国家之间的冲突斗争。但是这些例子只说明了战争给人们带来伤痛恐惧等感受。作者在段末对此给出了解释，因为这些人类的贪念等人性问题从过去到现在都没变，因此借鉴过去是对未来有用的。如果是这样的论证思路的话，我认为还不如利用这些各个国家的例子，不管过去现在，来说明过去和现在都有同样的不良的人性问题，而不要把笔墨花在人们的感受上，感受跟借鉴是没关系的。并且这么论证完之后在回过头来看第一个例子，似乎相关性不大。但当然也在论证同样的主题。像这种情况，我认为应该就换行了，因为你一层意思已经说完了。这可以让你的思路更清晰，也不会跟另一层意思搅在一起。

第二个意群段的中心句在句首，并以经济危机的例子来证明。与上一段相同的是，都指出了过去与现在的相同之处，这一段意在证明过去和现在奋斗时会有相类似的问题存在，因而可以相互借鉴。虽然例子我没看懂，但我想应该还是可以的。

第三个意群段是取反，说明现在社会的复杂性是过去无法预知的。用了黑客钻法律空子的来说明。但是这个例子我个人觉得没有效地论证。现成的法律就摆在这，肯定有空子可钻。跟我们立法的时候有没有借鉴过去没关系。后来看了后面的论证，我想你的意思是反驳第一意群段的关于人性的相同之处吧。我觉得既然你认为人性的相同性是过去和现在借鉴的因素所在，为什么不在各段句首就明确指出，并以此为线索串起整篇文章？

结尾是典型的总结型，其实可以尝试以简短有力的一两句话来结尾。

话又说回来，45分钟我都不能写成这样！