Though I’ve talked a lot lately about living in the now, it’s also interesting how people view the time before they were. Including me, I’m not immune to it.
But sometimes it’s as though another set of rules apply, as though humans were somehow different than they are in this very moment where we find ourselves. But people have been people from the time we started to be people, and perhaps even before.
Hatreds and prejudices are neither new nor old; exploiting others for gain, finding ways to abuse the vulnerable, they are also as ancient as humanity and seemingly not something that’s going to evolve out of the species. At least, not any time soon, apparently.
I do think about people living in complex current times, and how poorly suited some are, as though they are millennia behind in coping genes. This is in no way scientific, but I think bigotries and an incapacity to keep pace with modern cultural evolution go hand in hand.
Like the universe is moving too fast for them, and they want to freeze it at a time with simple rules and simple boundaries and both of those simple things just happen to put them at the top of a pedestal of privilege.
Not that simple rules or simple boundaries ever really existed. But from here to there, it can look like they did.
Hmm.
Or maybe terrible people are just terrible people.
The awfulness of terrible people doesn’t lessen because what they did is in the untouchable past. Context is really never a justification for terrible. Inevitably, you will see people at the same time as the terrible acts saying that they are terrible acts.
Honestly, I think people have always “known better.” Perhaps not innately, but the information has been there to take in.
Ever since the time we started to be people.
Have a great Tuesday.
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