All this complacent, self-flattering "we're on the right side of history" stuff. History doesn't have sides: it does its own bloody thing.
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@philosophyexp Pretty sure that's a mettyfor. If you want to argue against it, argue against the notion that history is always progress.
@mollydot But that's precisely what I'm arguing against (see my previous tweet to @NotungSchwert). The metaphor is parasitic on that idea.
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@mollydot I tried to express it with the "complacent" thing. But 140 characters... :) -
@philosophyexp It does seem like marriage equality is going in the progress direction in many countries though. Not Uganda.... -
@mollydot Right, but who knows what the situation will be in 50 years, etc. People at the end of the 19th Century thought they...
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