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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Aug 2017
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Aug 2017
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Aug 2017
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Aug 2017
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Aug 2017
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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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          16/ Denying this is dangerous for the same reason denying finanicial debt is dangerous: there is compound interest at work

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          17/ Compound interest so powerful that a 147 years after Lee died, a 20-year-old felt the need to drive a car into a crowd over his statue

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