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We never learn, do we?
The fact that Israel is doing what it's doing, Germany is doing what it's doing(its far right is on the rise again as well), and we're doing what we're doing despite being the first human lifespan where we have literal video and photographic records and testimony of past atrocities really gives me disdain for my own species.
As a species, We seem to either be incapable of or refuse to retain the lessons of history beyond a single human lifespan. That's quite limiting.
A human life can be both terribly long and tragically short. But our lifespans are fairly insignificant to the wheels of time.
That being said, we can and should do better.
Time is a flat circle, you know the destination but do you know how to get off?
We agree to try something different. The agreement is always the challenge.
300 thousand years of human existence and we act like we climbed out of the trees yesterday.
To be fair, our brains are basically the same as our 300k y/o ancestor's. We just have some more technology, but that's it.
It's not like we have evolutionary pressure to improve our stupid monkey brains to be more tolerant. If anything it's the other way around.
To be accurate, we spent about 95% of that wandering around in the dirt before it occurred to some of us that we could stay in one place and maybe grow stuff there.
For me, that reality provides necessary context for why we are the way we are. En masse, we are not nearly as intelligent or impressive as we believe we are. IMHO even the best of us only have glimmers of sapience.