Ok...it appears to me as though a...confessional, of sorts, is in order. My native country, the "good ol' US-of-A", has outpaced Canada in the ongoing "race-to-see-which-of-the-countries-on-the-north-american-continent-can-behave-in-the-most-absurd-manner".
This juicy nugget just came to my attention. Does no one realize what this is? It is quite literally --- well, in a figurative sense ---- the "burning-of-books".
Big picture-wise, it doesn't matter in the slightest what any given group feels about these monuments (though this whole situation "smells-funny" to me)...this is entirely beside the point. Contained within the center-of-gravity of this whole outbreak-of-madness are the allegedly pivotal figures on the "losing" side of history...OUR history. Ought we not be reminded to learn from this dark chapter in the book that is our collective past?
The "powers-that-(shouldn't)-be" want nothing more than to erase history from memory, and people are giving that very thing to them, willingly I might add, on a silver platter! All because of a shared sense of being offended by this history and the figures associated with same. Australian comedian Stephen Hughes has something to say on this matter:
What we see playing out is the visible "tip-of-the-iceberg" of the classic Divide and Conquer tactic employed by the ruling powers since time immemorial.
It is time for people to wake the fuck up!!! It is time for people to grow the fuck up!!! It is time to stop behaving like spoiled children who lash out when they don't get their way. Heart strings are being played like a finely tuned fiddle.
Ultimately, our problems are not the past...though that particular 'tree' certainly has it's roots firmly planted there. Our problems are the fruits of that tree, very much in the present. Erasing the past is absolving those who feast on that fruit - the powers-that-(oughtn't)-be.
It is time to awake from your slumber... It is time to unite!
----Homalinadir
