"Please stop learning the lessons of history"
Quick post on the ever-present minded
From Hercules yesterday:
Well sure. I’m written a lot lately about the Left’s pretended appeals to general principles (“victim blaming is wrong!”), that are really just friend/enemy distinctions. When you (their enemy) blame one of their friends (the victim) in even the tiniest way, that’s the worst thing imaginable. But if you (their enemy) are the victim, then go ahead and blame away, it’s fine.
We know this in part because we saw it happen a billion times during COVID, when some conservative got sick, “ha ha, that’s what you get for not wearing a mask”, “ha ha, you deserve it, anti-vaxxer, hope you die”, if not just “ha ha, that’s what you get for not shunning all human contact”. It was victim blaming in a particularly pure form, and it was celebrated.
So I mention that in reply to Sorbo and get the following reply myself.
Now it’s not nice to pick on accounts with literally eight followers, but think about this. We are used to saying “people don’t learn the lessons of history”, and we usually mean that in a passive way, people are just not acting, they are failing to do something they should do. But in this case somebody (me), in fact WAS learning the lessons of history and trying to apply them to the present moment, and he got confronted by someone telling him to cut that out. Two further thoughts on that:
In this case, the lesson of history was that her team was a bunch of hypocrites. She didn’t like that, and of course that was the immediate reason for her outburst.
But I think we also see something in the complaint that Covid was FOUR YEARS AGO. That’s like forever ago man. What could something that happened four years ago possibly have to do with the present? And this is how many people live their lives today. The past is totally irrelevant. Six months ago is irrelevant. If the book is more than a decade old, why is it even in the school library? People were so ignorant back then man. Now we got it all figured out.
That is all.
So in response to being told to shut up, you write a post about it and refer to recent history instead of the empowered woman who stands on the hill of being a marginalized voice, meaning, you need to listen to her. You refer to facts, she relies on narrative. Get with it.
Well, I can guess who might be at the front of the line of folks being marched off to re-education camp. You might as well be waving your hand, saying, choose me.
The incessant presentism, which seems to be getting worse (is the lifespan for engagement now only an hour or two?), is one reason I've pulled away from Twitter lately. Also, frequently you can tell who's using Twitter on a phone and who's using it on a computer, based on the quality and depth of their tweets.