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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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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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4/ By global festering-wound standards, the legacy of Robert E. Lee has not even scabbed over. This will take a LONG time to process.
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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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9/ Today Genghis Khan is a healed wound for the most part, not an active cultural currency. We are free to view him as pure history data
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11/ But there is a ton of outstanding pain debt left to be experienced in history books, before it can be retired. Dark matter. Work to do.
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