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May 21, 2017
Why do many people want to deny us our past?
Why does the brutishness of our ancestors offend so?
And why do the stories of tremendous resilience, of family and purpose and fight and faith offend them? We are told that because they were not perfect – that they held prejudice in their hearts or often misbehaved – we are not to look to them; certainly not as a means to better understand ourselves. As if we are not even now brutish and vile – albeit in different ways. As if the progress we have been sold, so carefully scraped of all vestiges of the past, is even healthy – even progress at all really, instead of another dark age served to us by know-nothings.Castles, Civilizations and the Know-Nothings | Joel D. Hirst
Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 21, 2017 7:54 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Everything about them is bald faced lies. They lie about the past, they lie about the future, they lie about themselves, and they lie about you.
What riles them the most, what pushes all their buttons, what causes them to seethe?
Your refusal to believe they exist or carry weight.
Treat them as you would the wailing brat in the cart behind you at the checkout line. Scowl and scorn the parent or ablizer then turn and ignore.
Even place sharp and dangerous things in it's reach so that it may permanently harm itself.
If tensions are taunt obliterate it with whatever is available to lessen the pressure. Release the retarded nihilist from it's self imposed cage into the ether where it belongs.
Never give it credence.
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 22, 2017 4:36 AM