what the past is for

I stumbled upon this via here the other day, and some parts were interesting given my musings on perspective/perception.

…the concept of a moral judgement, and therefore also the concepts of good and evil, are empty; they do not refer to any empirical reality but only to our way of judging reality according to our a priori conceptual framework that we have constructed. The doctrine that "there are no facts, only interpretations" abolishes the idea of human responsibility and moral judgments…

I can’t claim to comment in any worthwhile way on postmodernism, but this here piece on the relevance of the past, is interesting.