Tuesday 16 June 2015

HISTORY 2

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    • LeeAnne Hensley I don't think a lot of them even believe in their own history. That's why they now appropriate someone else's history and claim it is their own.
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      • Jennifer Frances Armstrong Yeah, the fundamental Western weakness is in terms of the historical sense. I notice that now the historical sense even becomes pathologized (when convenient). It seems chic to say that if you make any reference to the past, you "live in the past". That is like saying a nuclear physicist lives in a nucleus. It really doesn't make sense and is a form of anti-intellectualism.
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      • LeeAnne Hensley Or if you make observations about the past, and they include any event that happened that was less than joyous, you're suddenly accused of blaming someone else for your problems, and you're also accused of making excuses not to be better than your past...See More
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      • LeeAnne Hensley A lot of people treat history like shit. Literal shit. Like something they excreted, and are embarrassed and disgusted by. To present them with an account of history, you will get a reaction as if you had saved their turd and brought it out for them to look at later. Perhaps they are guilty and ashamed of history, and all you have to do is acknowledge it, and they assume you're putting a guilt trip on them.
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      • Jennifer Frances Armstrong As for experiences being "less than joyous", I find the current crop of people automatically assume that if you are saying anything about the past it must be wholly negative
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      • LeeAnne Hensley In Western society, it is perfectly acceptable to exist in a bubble of nostalgia, but when you speak of actual history, people become uncomfortable. They want to remember the shit they bought to eat and play with in their glory days, but they don't want to talk about the things that were happening that were shaping the world.
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      • Jennifer Frances Armstrong As for what you say above about treating history like shit -- yes, that is what failures and those trying to escape from reality because they are afraid of it will do
      • Jennifer Frances Armstrong They can't accept the aspects of reality that are difficult to digest because narcissists cannot do that.
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