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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Those who do or do not study history are dinked to repeat it. That’s the issue. We study history, then send the military to Afghanistan. We aren’t learning anything from history that is actually useful.

    Kids crusaded against date memorization, and that worked. So now we know the minutemen at Lexington and Concord, the bill of rights, all these wars, we know they happened. Great Lincoln saved the union. But none of that matters. It has actually no effect on people meeting any kind of important decisions.

    What we need to learn is the effects history has had on people. Like, clearly America went to war in WW1 to stop the war, and in WW2 to do something, and America’s actions in WW2 are justified and all, but every single person who got shot in WW2 had a really bad time. Wars are to often taught from the end, America beat the Sioux, or the Mexicans, to form states out of their land and the we are looking at those states and they’re nice places now. But every war has it’s losers, they’re the ones who get shot. They’re the perspective we never get taught. Even a short war like the Bismarck German unification gets the facts taught but skips on the pain. But people get shot and it really really sucks.

    It should only be with a heavy heart that we go to war, because even a just war will be nothing but awful and everyone should know that.















  • I’ve been dipping between contact and no contact and low contact for The last 5 years with my parents. My mom and I had a fight that made me realize that she doesn’t and never has cared about who I am and though it’s simplifying things, she’s only really cared about my economic success.

    Both parents gave me a variety of complete and total emotional incompetence. I look back on everything I’ve done and I can see the stupid actions I’ve taken as direct memory of my parents and it makes me feel really bad. They were incredibly authoritarian to me and unforgiving while at the same time totally down to entertain my sisters bs.

    I’m definitely happier when I don’t talk to them and much more unhappy when I do talk to them the biggest issue is that every time I remember something from my childhood it upsets me. And I remember a lot. And I don’t know how to forgive anybody and I think it’s because I’ve never processed the thousand cuts of disappointment of my childhood. So I don’t talk to them and I don’t know if that’s going to change but telling myself that it won’t change reduces my anxiety.