I hate living in this timeline where everything is being questioned in this way. I miss when people could just have interests without some assholes making it political for some psychotic reason. Honestly, those who are the most eager to project extremist political motives into everything other people do should probably take a good hard look in the mirror.
People simping for imperial empires have historically been poltical with it. Mussolini Italy was big on ancient Rome. Greek Nazis always have been big on Ancient Greece. Look at the Washington Obelisk simping for pharaonic Egypt. Napoleons Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Neoclassical interpretation of roman architecture…
“Simping for” is fundamentally different from being interested in the history of. In some cases, quite the opposite.
I spent some time researching the legal frameworks of American slavery, and a ton of time on racist laws between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in large part because I think that it is under reported just how racist the origins of a lot of our day to day lives are. So when I’m deep in the weeds on racist history, it’s often because I can see the parallels today and don’t want to reinvent the wheel on stamping out the pockets of racism I actually have the power to change.
I agree. My point is that “simping for” imperial empires is not a new phenomenon so you would always have to guard with whom you share your interest and what their motives for it are.
No no. I’m sure there have always been crazy assholes who like things that normal people also like. The difference from the time I’m talking about and now is that the fringe psychos didn’t get to represent whole areas of interests and thereby have people who are on the outside of the interest, paint all people with the interest as fascists.
That is the difference. I miss when people could have interests without having to defend themselves against trigger happy people who see ghosts in every corner.
I hate living in this timeline where everything is being questioned in this way. I miss when people could just have interests without some assholes making it political for some psychotic reason. Honestly, those who are the most eager to project extremist political motives into everything other people do should probably take a good hard look in the mirror.
It has always been political
People simping for imperial empires have historically been poltical with it. Mussolini Italy was big on ancient Rome. Greek Nazis always have been big on Ancient Greece. Look at the Washington Obelisk simping for pharaonic Egypt. Napoleons Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Neoclassical interpretation of roman architecture…
I am afraid the time you refer to never existed.
“Simping for” is fundamentally different from being interested in the history of. In some cases, quite the opposite.
I spent some time researching the legal frameworks of American slavery, and a ton of time on racist laws between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in large part because I think that it is under reported just how racist the origins of a lot of our day to day lives are. So when I’m deep in the weeds on racist history, it’s often because I can see the parallels today and don’t want to reinvent the wheel on stamping out the pockets of racism I actually have the power to change.
I agree. My point is that “simping for” imperial empires is not a new phenomenon so you would always have to guard with whom you share your interest and what their motives for it are.
No no. I’m sure there have always been crazy assholes who like things that normal people also like. The difference from the time I’m talking about and now is that the fringe psychos didn’t get to represent whole areas of interests and thereby have people who are on the outside of the interest, paint all people with the interest as fascists.
That is the difference. I miss when people could have interests without having to defend themselves against trigger happy people who see ghosts in every corner.