Forgotten History?
Too often we think because some politician has made a wonderful speech or held a press conference attached with a lot of funding that we no longer have to worry about certain issues.
However, this could be no further from the truth, take for instance the erosion of civil liberties in the United States and Canada after the 9/11 tragedy. The terrorist got what they wanted, they wanted us to trample on our own rights, they fought us with our own weapon of democracy.
By protecting democracy we have destroyed democracy. We have installed and instilled new values, of detention without trial, and created concentration camps to send the most undesireable, usually people of color.
However what is also forgotten is that in the war on terror that we have created a new military technology, new computer programs and viruses that have destroyed people's laptops, banks have changed how they conduct business, even our social programs have stopped helping people.
In a way we think because we all believed Martin Luther King Jr. or that John F Kennedy was assasinated for protecting civil liberties, that the world is a better place. However even though the Berlin Wall came down, with Reagan's famous words, the new world order did not however include the freedom that we said we gave the communist.
Instead we took away our own freedom. You could almost say even though the cold war may have warmed up, we have created a new luke warm war on ourselves as people. So really have we forgotten our past, have we succombed to the problems that plagued our forefathers, that by forgetting history we forget who we are and instead commit the same mistakes?
However, this could be no further from the truth, take for instance the erosion of civil liberties in the United States and Canada after the 9/11 tragedy. The terrorist got what they wanted, they wanted us to trample on our own rights, they fought us with our own weapon of democracy.
By protecting democracy we have destroyed democracy. We have installed and instilled new values, of detention without trial, and created concentration camps to send the most undesireable, usually people of color.
However what is also forgotten is that in the war on terror that we have created a new military technology, new computer programs and viruses that have destroyed people's laptops, banks have changed how they conduct business, even our social programs have stopped helping people.
In a way we think because we all believed Martin Luther King Jr. or that John F Kennedy was assasinated for protecting civil liberties, that the world is a better place. However even though the Berlin Wall came down, with Reagan's famous words, the new world order did not however include the freedom that we said we gave the communist.
Instead we took away our own freedom. You could almost say even though the cold war may have warmed up, we have created a new luke warm war on ourselves as people. So really have we forgotten our past, have we succombed to the problems that plagued our forefathers, that by forgetting history we forget who we are and instead commit the same mistakes?
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10:36 p.m.
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