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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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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18/ Do not ignore the blood debts of history (with interest). Do not lie to yourself that pains can be buried without being experienced.
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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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Train history pain-herders?
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