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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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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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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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19/ This shit has caused me pain in 2 countries/histories. Your share of debt can't be willed away with clever thinking or 'enlightenment'
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20/ Its not about you. It's about building roads into history that allow us to visit past painlessly. Just as taxes are about physical roads
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