大家好，求助，有一道ISSUE题目搞不懂什么意思

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Claim：Knowing about the past can not help people to make important decisions today.
Reason：we are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.
我不懂的地方时最后一句，我们在过去的事件和现在的事件之间找不到联系，除非你和这两个事件都有距离？这句话什么意思？后半句应该是除非你和这两个事件都有联系吧?该怎么理解呢。