1/ Vipassana-ing friend of mine said deep thing about wounds of history: someone has to experience repressed/deferred pain for it to go away
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2/ There is a Genghis Khan statue in Mongolia. He's still central to their identity
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3/ In India, people are *still* trying to rewrite history to paint Hindu losers of battles with Muslims from 13th, 16th centuries as victors
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There's a reason Lee statue became the symbolic convergence point though
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Nah, it's long (about 6000 years) but it does end. Historical memories do settle and go dormant. Like seismic/volcanic activity.
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