29 min
#5-Erasing History American Thought Project
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- Política
Nick and Robert discuss the attempts to erase history. We've seen this before but we've never been living out Orwell's 1984 quite so closely. Honest debate about revering some and condemning others ceases to exist in today's climate. Hindsight is 2020 and it is unreasonable and unfair to judge the past by the moral standards of the day. To be unable to acknowledge that two things can be true; great men can do immoral things and great men can do triumphant things is sophomoric and ignorance. We stand on the shoulders of giants and spit down on them in our ingratitude and arrogance. America is slowly losing the ability to add context and understand the facts of life, namely that it is both tragic and beautiful, a coexistence of grace and sin, grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness.
Nick and Robert discuss the attempts to erase history. We've seen this before but we've never been living out Orwell's 1984 quite so closely. Honest debate about revering some and condemning others ceases to exist in today's climate. Hindsight is 2020 and it is unreasonable and unfair to judge the past by the moral standards of the day. To be unable to acknowledge that two things can be true; great men can do immoral things and great men can do triumphant things is sophomoric and ignorance. We stand on the shoulders of giants and spit down on them in our ingratitude and arrogance. America is slowly losing the ability to add context and understand the facts of life, namely that it is both tragic and beautiful, a coexistence of grace and sin, grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness.
29 min