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November 12 - November 23, 2021
History is a love letter to tyrants written in the blood of the overrun, the forgotten, the expunged!�
“It is not cynical to admit that the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added and removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and vision and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice!
We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.
In a thousand years, when the last human work was taken over by an automatic engine, would it conclude the liberation or the enslavement of the race?
Familiarity is such a cataract.
