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| Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again |
| 2019-04-29 |
| [TheBurningPlatform] A taste: The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #4 The great Winston Churchill a trigger? The Commonwealth? Shashi, don't snigger! The casualty figure For Hindoo... and Digger? Point five eight percent... so why bicker? Maybe oughtta be a hashtag, if it isn't already. |
| Posted by: Snoger Grundy4919 2019-04-29 19:24 |
| #3 from what Ive been reading here lately, not if the Marines have anything to say about it |
| Posted by: 746 2019-04-29 15:45 |
| #2 Statists seem to like erasing history--from the Nazis burning of books to tearing down historical monuments in the U.S. to Biden and the Anita Hill fiasco. Is Christine Blasey Ford going to end up as a Joan of Arc character in the revisionist history books? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-04-29 09:25 |
| #1 You have to see the original article at Quilette, if only for the exhibit where the comments section immediately turns into an example of what Kundera was talking about with a strongly implemented "But Whaddabout The Stuff That Nazi Western Civ Guy Churchill Did To The Indians During WW2?" (The stupididy of which would take a couple days to enumerate, which I don't have). https://quillette.com/2019/03/31/historical-amnesia-and-kunderas-resistance/. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-04-29 08:41 |