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Adam F. Lawton | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Cannot shake the feeling that historians a few hundred years from now are going to be flabbergasted at our behavior.
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5df08b80 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2a70c54d They won't if the fascists are allowed to win. 

That history won't exist.
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49eaa26d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2a70c54d Brave of you to think that there are going to be any historians in a few hundred years. I'm am not even particularly confident there will be any human beings.
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ab278444 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Adam F. Lawton Probably no different that how we look back at people who believed in the geocentric model of the solar system and the crusades.