"Hey hey, ho ho, western civilization has got to go" is a despicable chant that was heard around colleges yesterday. Do people actually learn anything in college?
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There we agree, partially. There are mistakes in history that should not be repeated.
We can be 80% grateful to our ancestors, but still think that slavery, the Versailles Treaty, and Brutalist architecture were evil. Informed discernment is key.
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Individuals can be grateful to their ancestors if they want. Making it into a moralistic obligation is questionable and a basis for judgment if people do not do so would require something more than populist tweets.
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Yep. Informed discernment is the opposite of moralistic obligation.
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