Diary: Who Brung You

 

One of the issues that I think that we have come to internalize and allow to become pathological is the simplistic idea that anyone in the past that did anything that is now considered “evil” is totally bad and all of the positive accomplishments along with the bad shit is painted with the ugly brush.

I find it most entertaining and somewhat disheartening to watch this in action.  It is like being in the Catholic Church during the days of my youth.  You can go to school, get good grades, be on the football team, help out in the food pantry, visit your grandmother and generally be a model citizen.  But eat a snickers bar in the grocery store and “forget” to pay for it and you are certainly going to hell.

I am coming to the conclusion that the expectations of the past are out of line with the reality that the past had to come to grips with.  Choices are offered to different cohorts and the decisions made in the long ago that benefited the majority at that particular time have consequences that come to fruition in the present.

I think that we have gone far enough along the spectrum of blaming the past.  We have been sold the idea that people can be perfect and the world can hold hands into the bright shiny future.  I sense that the people doing the most complaining are the folks that were birthed by those who most benefited from the decisions of the past.