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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan_Equestrian_Statue …
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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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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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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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12/ People approach the healing work differently depending on their spiritual bent. Christians seek to repent/forgive. Buddhists "process".
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13/ Atheist techies are not immune. We frantically try to create more clean future so blood debts of history become trivial by comparison
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14/ Whatever your coping strategy as a historically situated ape looking for meaning in aging rivers of blood flowing past scabs/wounds...
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15/ ...One thing is for sure. The pain must be experienced in consciousness before it can be expiated from it.
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