(11-11-2023, 05:27 AM)ancientlight Wrote: Give an inch they demand a mile. That's how it always goes. When will the Germans and other Europeans ever learn?
I don't think learning is the objective. There is a real danger when folks start trying to hide history and re-write it as if it never was. History can be learned from, as it is a record of both mistakes and triumphs. It tells us what NOT to do, and exactly how we are going to get our asses kicked if we do it anyhow. Without those lessons and prompts, people are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, and humanity can never progress if it's continually making the same mistakes over and over again.
It makes me wonder just who is trying to hide the failures and mistakes, and further wonder if they might not be planning to make those same mistakes again themselves, expecting a different result.
Why, for example, would anyone try to gloss over or hide the horrors of the concentration camps unless they planned on setting some new ones up themselves, and didn't want anyone to see it coming by referring to the hindisght of history?
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