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We in America are not alone in this endeavor...
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A puppet state of America has removed all their Lenin statues…
You say, “Good?”
I say history is to be embraced. Good or bad history needs to be embraced, dealt with mentally and learned from…
We seem, in the west to be in a very uncivilized time:
We are trying to remove everything that makes us who we are and what made us who we are. We can hate and hate and hate, but soon without the reminders we must and will move on to other things to hate. I do not hate Civil War Stuff. I do not hate Lenin…
I learn from these statues:
These monuments to the past. These items of history, that were created and produced in another time and era. Things were not perfect in these eras. But they all have lessons and history that we need to embrace. For how else do we learn that what we do now in history is naught but a repeat of what was done back then?
Are we not suppose to be more civilized, more tolerant and more worthy of living on this planet than in the past. Do we not want to climb the ladder and see a better future? For we are regressing…
Destroy the statues and monuments, due to political and personal feelings and soon we must turn to literature, art, fantasies and tear them down to satisfy our lust for destruction…. We already kill aimlessly all over the world to satisfy our desires…
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We have entered a very dangerous point in our lives right now:
Things such as statue removal for whimsical reasons are a preclude to removal of things for the wrong reasons and then removal just to cover up the past…. Life is full of wrongs and unless we embrace such wrongs and learn from them, we stagnate and wither…
All through history things have been destroyed, because people do not like what things represent. We in the west seemed to at one time have reached a point of embracing our wrongs and standing up for preserving good above evil. When we try to alter our world and create a perfect image around us to meet our expectations, we fail and create the conditions to circle around and do all that we did once before, again and again…
Hate…
There seems to be a lot of hate and hate is one of those words that is very sever. Hate is harsh. We may dislike something. We may abhor something. But to hate is vehement and to be even more passionate to the point of hurting, killing and disfiguring…. Hate is the ultimate of disliking and when we are hating and smashing, we are not in control… Hate is the word that comes out like all four letter words, under stress. Eg. I hate you… Hate accompanies anger. Eg. I want to kill you!…
We may feel dislike, but a civil society will look beyond the hate. Not embrace it. Hate comes from years and years of propaganda. Just like we are doing to and having done to us with North Korea. We hate NK, Russia, China and dozens of other countries. All the while we don’t see that our hatred is driving these people to hate us. We are not civilized, we are unsophisticated and rude…
We are rude to each other within and very rude to others without our country. We are even rude to our people that travel the world, such as I do. We seem to have a hate for the world and I use to see that called, “You have a chip on your shoulder!”
What has happened in Ukraine is a direct result of USA influence. It started years ago as America has worked and wormed itself into the politics and propaganda of Ukraine. I saw it ten years ago as I traveled Ukraine and it has come full circle to hate…
Russians loved Ukraine and loved America very very much. America could do not wrong, but now, Russia is learning to hate America and hate how Ukraine is treating her. Russia has many family members in Ukraine. Not just a few, but millions and millions of Russians live in Ukraine…. Now because of western interference, millions and millions of Ukrainians have moved to Russia. That is a lot of hate going on…
You do not have to like Lenin, Stalin and even Jackson, Grant from America. But they are men and or people who shaped what we have now. What we are trying to destroy. They are gone, history and simply the past…
We should learn from such people. We should learn what was good and what was bad and what it was that made us hate so much. Then we should analyze that feeling of hatred and utilize it for the betterment of our future…
A future that is full of strife is what we will create and have created. It is a future of nothing but hate and that hate is directed the wrong direction. As it is intended to be directed. Against those that did nothing to you or those around you…. Next up books, movies and paintings. Does it matter if that old Humphrey Bogart movies shows people smoking? Maybe movies that show slaves as real people and they are black should be banned? Maybe The Wizard of Oz is too racist against little people. Maybe you hate such movies, but maybe I like such movies?
Where does it end? Once started, the ending is sometimes far from available!
If you want to hate?
Hate something worth hating and change what is happening to our world right now. We are parasitic and viral upon this world. We need to hate the real issues at hand and not look at the past as a band aid for our lives now…. We need to focus our attention onto the banks, politicians, finances and killing…
I do not want to hate!
I just feel sorry for so many who are not happy, capable, narcissistic and so shortsighted about all the things around them. Hate, terrorism, murder, pillaging and such and such, have won and we are not civilized in anyway at all…
That iPhone does not make you a civilized person…
WtR