- 13 Apr 2024 11:12
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History keeps getting repeated because the lessons of history are never digested Potemkin.
The idea that we are exceptional and better than all the rest is the problem.
When will chauvinistic nation-states ever get the message? Nothing exceptional about you at all. You are composed of human beings. And that is all. Whatever greatness you have achieved or not achieved is due to human beings.
The idea of ideal states and perfection, and master this or that is for fools Potemkin.
But the Power of Myth is very strong in human societies.
And once in a while you get to the stage of the Power of Myth has to face reality for once.
And that is when the pain of destruction and the agony of defeat finally break through the denial that all Myth believers cling to--in the lost hope that they are the exceptional group. The one that is better than all the rest.
Meanwhile, the humble pick up their humble things and move on to live another day. The Elite wind up becoming dust and ash. Along with their dreams of glory.
Though that Genghis Khan sure did leave behind a lot of his descendants didn't he?
Potemkin wrote:That’s what they thought at the Congress of Vienna, @Rich.
History keeps getting repeated because the lessons of history are never digested Potemkin.
The idea that we are exceptional and better than all the rest is the problem.
When will chauvinistic nation-states ever get the message? Nothing exceptional about you at all. You are composed of human beings. And that is all. Whatever greatness you have achieved or not achieved is due to human beings.
The idea of ideal states and perfection, and master this or that is for fools Potemkin.
But the Power of Myth is very strong in human societies.
And once in a while you get to the stage of the Power of Myth has to face reality for once.
And that is when the pain of destruction and the agony of defeat finally break through the denial that all Myth believers cling to--in the lost hope that they are the exceptional group. The one that is better than all the rest.
Meanwhile, the humble pick up their humble things and move on to live another day. The Elite wind up becoming dust and ash. Along with their dreams of glory.
Though that Genghis Khan sure did leave behind a lot of his descendants didn't he?
La historia de mi amor
se pudiera encontrar
en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez
se pudiera encontrar
en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez