The Stopwatch of Time

On my travels to Ireland, Scotland, and Holland, I have noticed that history is not always history and is still very much apart of the culture and day to day life. Not only are the traditions older, so are the buildings and are often retro-fitted to house different things. This happens in the United States too but not all that often because of how much older the buildings in other countries are and how they still stand to this day. While some places in the United States have living history like this or customs and cultures that still exist, not all of the United States does and this is what is interesting. I am used to being from Texas and people still acting like it is its own country and being proud to be from there, although when I go to other states I hardly get that feeling. Another example is travelling through the deep south and Confederate things are still prevalent. Although in Amsterdam it was more culture that persisted and in Scotland it is the buildings and history that has stayed. Most of the time in the U.S it feels as though we try to erase our bad history and not share it with the people of our country. But maybe that is our culture and how we operate. W.B yeats was also fascinated by history especially Irish history because he wanted to preserve it due to his time being when the British still had control of the Isle of Ireland. His poem "The Second Coming" explains how history has an effect on everything and war does too. But at the same time it is chaos which leads back around to itself and so it is a circle of events that will eventually repeat.