03-28-2011, 07:18 PM
Hi,
I've mixed feelings. While I agree with what you say, I also have a love for history and culture. If previous generations had eradicated everything that came before that they disagreed with, our culture would be much poorer. No Flavian amphitheater, no Ruins on the Acropolis, and so on. There has been enough destruction, IMO.
Not too long ago, the Kingdome in Seattle was demolished. It was about 25 years old. I remember thinking, at the time, that there probably aren't going to be many tourists going to Seattle two millenia hence to see its ruins and contemplate its social and cultural significance.
Those that don't study history may be doomed to repeat it, but those that destroy it doom us all to live only in the present.
--Pete
(03-28-2011, 07:00 PM)kandrathe Wrote: It would be sad to lose such a beloved national monument, but it represents to me everything that was/is wrong with our treatment of native Americans.
I've mixed feelings. While I agree with what you say, I also have a love for history and culture. If previous generations had eradicated everything that came before that they disagreed with, our culture would be much poorer. No Flavian amphitheater, no Ruins on the Acropolis, and so on. There has been enough destruction, IMO.
Not too long ago, the Kingdome in Seattle was demolished. It was about 25 years old. I remember thinking, at the time, that there probably aren't going to be many tourists going to Seattle two millenia hence to see its ruins and contemplate its social and cultural significance.
Those that don't study history may be doomed to repeat it, but those that destroy it doom us all to live only in the present.
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?