This determination of the politically correct that all the inequalities and wrongs of the past should be recognised and put right by saying sorry is gaining ground.
In some places statues to various statesmen are under threat .
Plaques to commemorate events and the people who made them happen are also in danger. One such statue is of Rhodes at the South African university in Cape Town.
In America statues of various statesmen have been mentioned as maybe suffering a similar fate.
One generation can not impose their values on those who lived before them surely? Our various beliefs are formed according to the events happening around us.
In this digital age we are aware of events over the entire world in a way that our predecessors were not.
Our generation has different views than the last one or the future ones. What we believe is personal to now.
We who are living through a time of extraordinary change are in some cases attempting to rewrite our history by destroying statues and words enshrined in ages long past.
Lots of inequalities still exist. Lots of battles are still playing out with often religious beliefs fuelling appalling events...
Jews versus Palestinians , Islam fighting Christians in various ways.
Refugees desperate for shelter moving in great numbers from war to safety.
We as individuals have choices.
To help those who need it where possible or to make matters worse by intolerance.
But this is where we are now. Attempting to rewrite History by destroying relics of the past is I believe hastening our our own destruction.
We are here now. Let those who got us here rest in peace!
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1 comment:
You are quite right about intolerance and instead of re-writing history, we should learn from it. That is the way to grow and to change.
Remembrance is something like that. People want to commandeer it for political purposes, to progress a particular agenda - whether we agree with their views or not, this is disrespectful of the millions who died in wars, not of their making, but through perhaps loyalty to their family and friends, who they went with. The sacrifice made by so many, for the few deserves to be remembered as just that -and not as evdience of war mongering or such like.
Those who want to evidence peace, can always wear a white poppy to signify their disagreement with war, but not to push their agenda for political gain.
The person who most wants peace, is someone who has fought in a war, and has seen the outcomes. I knew people who were killed in the twentieth and twenty first centuries (recently) and was involved for some years in the aftermath, looking after their families. So, I am only too aware of the consequences for them - but those who died, doing their duty for their country, died for a cause that they believed in - they gave their lives, to save others making that sacrifice.
If people want to rearrange the past, they should move to a place, like Russia or the USA, where the presidents are busy trying to re-write history for their own political purposes.
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