Anyone else feel likle crying?

Started by fsn, 06 March 2015, 09:39:16 AM

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Quote from: Techno on 16 March 2015, 06:44:33 AM
Someone remind me.......What was this topic supposed to be about ?  :-\
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Destruction of ancient monuments by ISIS for potty religious reasons.
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Techno

Ah.....That was it.
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Saw that on Sky News this morning. Iconoclasm is just one more example of uncivilised ignorance. When it feels backed into a corner, the mind of the peasant usually reacts with bigoted violence.
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They're beneath contempt; I'm right with everyone on the shock and outrage. But blaming the peasant? Aren't we forgetting 15th century Florentines burning paintings, Leo's Byzantines destroying icons, Cromwell's thugs smashing cathedrals, Conquistadors melting American metalworks, figleaves painted on frescoes...? I think civilisation (or urban life anyway) doesn't do all that very much better than rusticity in these matters, and without the bad excuse of ignorance, at that.
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 12 April 2015, 09:07:45 AM
They're beneath contempt; I'm right with everyone on the shock and outrage. But blaming the peasant? Aren't we forgetting 15th century Florentines burning paintings, Leo's Byzantines destroying icons, Cromwell's thugs smashing cathedrals, Conquistadors melting American metalworks, figleaves painted on frescoes...? I think civilisation (or urban life anyway) doesn't do all that very much better than rusticity in these matters, and without the bad excuse of ignorance, at that.

FK, you are absolutely right.  There is nothing new in bigots and idiots destroying the past in order to try and create a false basis for their point of view of events of the past and to build a false platform for their convoluted present.  The question is simple 'What are these idiots so affraid of from the past that they have to destroy it?' 

(I wrote a longer answer but it started getting into blatant politics so I erased the remainder.)


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Well, we've established an alliance. Let's get tanked up and then go and beat the Hell out of a few iconoclastic foreigners in the street.
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Jolly good idea FK. Lead the charge.
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Can I stand at the back and shout encouragement ?

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