I honestly dislike these arguments, as I’ve heard them for countless decades now… Let’s hope that the current generation will learn from our mistakes!
Yeah, no they won’t
Not unless we make it part of history classes taught on every school, always, enshrined in a world constitution. Unless that, people will just blindly march behind the next Hitler because most people are awfully stupid, ignorant, eccentric, narcissistic, and just plain assholes
Let’s hope that the current generation will learn from our mistakes!
I agree; I wouldn’t much care for someone leaning on that position either — seems too easy to use it as a crutch to avoid taking any steps forward, as a way of tossing one’s hands upwards and otherwise saying, “Welp, we’ll just have to wait until the next group fixes it.” The intent of the reflection in this comic, though, both in dialogue and as supported by the title, is to speak to the decisions and actions people do take. Our past is filled with the decisions people made in their ‘today’. I can look back at the time of the American civil rights movement or the abolishment of slave trades, and I can appreciate that there were those folks who stood and made their choices to do what they could, because I am now down the line of those choices and am blessed to see their worth.
I believe humans have always been very human, and I don’t think this is going to change of our own volition. Our time here on this Earth will consistently find us up against greed and corruption and cruelty. But I also have hope. Not naively in some utopia of human creation, but in part that no matter what terrible things each generation faces (and brings upon themselves and upon this planet), there will continue to be folks who stand in opposition to the darkness in the ways that they can. That fella up there in this box concluded with the phrase, “Let’s roll,” which was made famous as the final known words of a passenger in the 9/11 flight that was crashed into the field after the folks on board fought back. It was a call to action then, not of some military endeavor but something deeper, and it’s echoed here again in the same light on this anniversary — as encouragement and motivation to strive against whatever current struggles we are facing.
If you still don’t appreciate this view or the comic, or feel I failed to express the former correctly in the latter, fair enough and no worries, Internet Stranger. I just caught your reply and thought I’d take a moment to clarify my aim :)
The only thing that’s changed is that now I think Osama bin Laden had a point.