Clint mason

2017-08-27 18:31:59 -0400

In the past we created ignorance of the population through a call of the “town crier”, calling the population to action for a moral outrage of that time, his call to remove the past, to drag people and their books of knowledge on to the streets and burn that past from our memory.

While the piles of history and paper full of knowledge are ignited and begin to burned in the town square, Zealots aroused by the town criers call, circle around the flames that satisfy their self-righteousness. As the flames consume the pile of history and knowledge., both accomplishments and atrocities from our past, vanish in a dark wisp of smoke and from our future.

They screamed “heretic” and profanities towards those that dare to learn and embrace a knowledge provide by these vessels of knowledge and the past teachings of history.



Today our town crier is social media, the zealots don’t stand around the town square screaming profanities at the perpetrators of this deemed heresy, they hide behind the glowing screens of their computers, using emoji’s to express their disgust or horror and sadness, they write words of passion without the knowledge of the subject they attack. they support cause without the evaluation of the effect. they demand change without knowing what that change truly looks like.

We can not change the past by removing its memory from our present. However we will effect the future by removing the knowledge of that past.

By removing the images of past atrocities, you also remove the past accomplishments. You take away the ability for society to measure if we are truly evolving. You take away the ability for the past to remind and teach the future of our mistakes.

If you take away the true horrors and knowledge of what war is and replace it with the make believe “Rambo” version of war, the call for war over even the smallest affront within that society will just become stronger.

Tearing down a monument that is at the base of your society birth and growth also removes the foundation of that society and what molded it to what it is today.

We should not whitewash or remove the past to make the attempt to quell the uncomfortable feeling we have as a result of it.

Attempting to create a past in the image of today standards is asinine and pathetic and a impossible standard for the past to meet, for if it did, it would show our species has not evolved or made progress. and we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes made of the past.

As the Old saying goes

Hindsight is always 20/20.



History is judged not by the realities of the time it was created, but the current beliefs of those that judge.

How will you be judged in 200 years? Likely not well…

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