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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8/ Beyond the historical specifics of their stories, heroes of alt-histories like Hitler and Lee are like currencies: of blood debts
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10/ Why? Because the debts have been largely paid. The pains have been experienced over 8 centuries.
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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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7/ So does Hitler. There may be no big statues of him, but he remains a potent symbol in global history-writing. Live cultural currency.
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