• ghostrider2112@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m inclined to ignore those roots considering the other atrocities they were committing throughout that time, and most of their history.

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      7 months ago

      Considering we as humans are born from wild animals everything is built on atrocities. As long as we keep remembering and documenting and moving forward progress is made like a sand pyramid in an hour glass that keeps collapsing but slowly builds upward. We built atrocious institutions because we never tried it before or never done to completion. Ignoring positive and holding onto negative is by definition skewed thinking, they kind we fight against all the time. Just my thoughts.

      I too struggle seeing any good but come to realize humans do things and learn from things way slower than I’d want…

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        7 months ago

        Good points. But, we also as a society need to do a better job at holding groups committing atrocities accountable for their actions.

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          7 months ago

          To quote Bradburry Fahrenheit 451

          " Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn’t use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, ‘We’re remembering’. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And some day we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steam-shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them. "