How can any historian be optimistic? All of the rapes, murders, and so on in the name of God must at least become tiring to observe over time. I remember watching a video from an antinatalist arguing that objective facts and subjective beliefs lead to pessimism, which may be debatable, but it describes how I view life so well.
History class kind of sucked today, but at the same time I saw some familiar faces. What pissed me off the most was seeing the teacher read off quotes from famous historical figures, but he omitted only one, and it was from Søren Kierkegaard. What the hell? He intentionally skipped that one, said it wasn’t important, and I find Kierkegaard to be quite important, if not all historical figures. I don’t know too much about Kierkegaard (except that he was Danish and seemed to have some cool hair), but I do know that he did help shape modern existential philosophy and especially absurdist philosophy, but, whatever. Philosophy and history don’t matter; nothing matters.
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Definitely-its completely disheartening to examine in detail the horrors comitted before our time..but for me I find our current society the most depraved.You would think that animal torture ,like being worked in extreme toil until collapse and horrific death, would be worse back then and NOW our enlightenment has elevated our kindness and our protection against abuse,exploitation,murder…..no such progress. Instead they stepped it up to a nonstop torture machine called factory farming,and put em where we cant see them-and out of sight IS out of mind..It KILLS ME. It devestates me to see images..but I am an activist and I wanted to be a revolutionary,and I have to see …my end of life plan was :Revolutionary Rage and vengeance,for the animals..im sick of being a cheerleader.Thats not resistance. Resistance is physical intervention-Stopping the offenders……Soren Kierkegaard was very cool… penetrating insight. Truth.Irony…
Have you made any progress with yoyr revolutionary activism? 😕
Huh, interesting usernames…
Yeah, were there any good things that happen besides maybe scientific progress? All the wars and stuff back then don’t seem too different from now…