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Billy Budd

(310 posts)

1. Milk of Amnesia

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 08:23 PM

Sep 2014

Americans love their historical amnesia.

Unable to reconcile the myth (the US stands for freedom and democracy) with reality (the US murders large numbers of innocent people in order to steal their resources), they choose to forget. And in forgetting their own history, as Santayana warned, they are condemned to repeat it.