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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5/ I don't believe in afterlife type karma, but there is such a thing as historical karma. It exists because full erasure is impossible
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6/ No matter what your politics, Robert E. Lee existed and means something in the stories some people need to tell themselves to go on
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