#never listen to me

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I know anon meant well but I do think saying that regarding the past and history is a bit dangerous - we need to think about it, we need to be informed, we need to know, we need to remember. It also misses a huge aspect of Judaism (and Jewish life in general), which is so much about that connection to the past and remembrance of all that happened. That history is not dead to us, it's present and with us. We cannot repair the world without understanding all the ways in which it has been broken.

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Hi!

You are referring to this post.

I agree with everything you said, and also said so it in the post. I don't have much to add because you said it perfectly - we need to know the past to understand how we got to the present, since the past built who we are now and dictates our actions every day.

That said, it is still important not to sink too far into the past that we forget the present, because the bottom line is we can only change one of those. Understanding the past is important but it doesn't fix the present, it merely explains it. And we all have to be very careful from weaponizing the past in order to justify present actions.

The post-modern age is (supposedly) hyper-aware of the importance of history in untangling deep rooted social issues, but it also has an unfortunate tenancy to weaponize (real) traumas that happened to YOUR people to obfuscate other traumas your people cause to OTHER people. You can see it in almost every nation in the world - the Japanese's focus of the atomic bombs to minimize the atrocities they've committed in East and South-East Asia as allies of the Nazis, white Latinex settlers' focus on rhetoric about the oppression they've experience from white English settlers to ignore the genocide they have and still are committing against Native Americans, Israel's cries of antisemitism every single time even the smallest (valid or not valid) criticism is leveled against iss actions to justified its treatment of Palestinians, Palestinians weaponizing anti-colonial terminology against Israel and Jews to minimize if not justify any and every terrorist attack against Israelis and denying the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land, and so on and so forth.

This does not negate the validity of said trauma, it's just how it is weaponized in the present to justify other horrors that is very dangerous. History is important and we must know it to know ourselves, but it is also a tool of war and thus must be treated with great care. This is also a part of the current weaponization of contextualization - people use history for as long as it suits their needs and narratives, ignoring, changing or denying other parts of it to de-legitimize the other side and boost up their own.

History is important and dangerous at the same time. We must understand it to understand our current actions, but knowing it won't change those actions on its own. That's our responsibility, and most of us are failing it spectacularly.

[bojackhorsemanobviously]

stan your sister isn't dumb enough to listen to my advice right?

@stanbarf

[glitch-frog]

clicker training but its just a single piano key that makes you sad

[overlymetaromantic]

Dungeon Meshi, or as I like to call it, Marcille's-increasingly-difficult-to-ignore-revelations-that-her-endless-devotion-to-Falin-may-in-fact-be-more-rooted-in-lesbianism-than-she-originally-thought

[starcurtain]

Please someone redraw this with Dr. Ratio and Aventurine because this is the exact vibe they have in my head post-Penacony.

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[chloesimaginationthings]

Is Michael Afton gay or European in FNAF?…

[akynoctua]

They’re so married.

[qualityrain]

[lotus-pear]

hngghh domestic......

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[equinoxette]

they should've hugged!!

[uncharted-constellations]

The entire ALBW team

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[solargeist]

watchers and listeners

[hinamie]

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