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RE: It’s 9/11 in Japan! Happy 9/11, everyone!!!! 🥇🎉❤️💘☮️
Everyone always says, If you forget the past, the past repeats itself. Lately I’m feeling, though, that the past repeats itself because we don’t forget it and move on. What’s worse, we reinvent it so that it taps into our anger and hatred and other negative emotions more and more.
I wish folks would stop reinventing it, see it as it is, and stop supporting the violence.
That’d be nice. I always think, do we really have to go through all of this again? Every year.
When I was home this summer, I went to NYC, and everyone wanted me to go see the 9/11 Memorial. I should’ve told them I had absolutely no interest in going, but instead I just said it was t in my list of things to do. But literally EVERYONE said, You have to go! It’s AMAZING!
Amazing? Ugh. It's a monument to ignorance. /sigh
Some reinvent it for their own purposes. The evil SOBs like Cheney. Others, I think, really don't learn. Like W. (note: I'm not saying he's stupid, just that for whatever reason he seems to honestly not understand that he was repeating a mistake that has been played out many many times in the past and always ends the same). I think teaching people about the past is good, but we also need to teach them about the evil SOBs who will try to reinvent and reimagine the past towards their goal of manipulating us.
I think connecting the past, or events like 9/11, to the future we want to build is what I am coming to think of as counter productive. I also think remembering the past is good, but lately I’ve been trying to view things from a bit of a different angle.