Do people not understand how history works? 'Cause sometimes I feel like people don't understand history. I mean, some people think there's good guys in history? How the fuck...
Look, I'm going to explain what I mean here. I think that people sometimes forgot that history is the story of humanity. And well, if you've read my previous blogs you know already that I firmly believe that the ability to commit evil is a basic human trait. And well, hindsight is 20/20. Which means that almost every human has done some horrible horrible acts. It's just history.
Now this more or less means that it's impossible to find a perfect faction or person in history. Unless you're relying on propaganda that is. So, when I hear people trying to impose the idea of binary morality onto people in history I just get a little freaked out.
And note, I am not saying that there is no evil factions in history, just that there is no perfect good factions. I do understand that finding a faction you side with in history is kinda just a thing that happens. Most people end up getting emotionally invested into things, like I unironically think Marie Antoinette was the victim of a smeer campagine, but thinking of history as something that's easy to side on things is kinda missing the point.
It's more or less just bias to try to see a binary good or evil in history, because binary good and evil doesn't exist neatly in humanity. Especially when you are talking about a full faction. Like, I hate Himler, Hitler and Mangele, but I can't ethically say that every German in WW2 was a good or bad person. 'Cause it's a broad and over reaching statement on a group of individual and unique people.
So, when people just break an entire part of history into binary, it pisses me the fuck off. No faction is perfect. Like, say. We can mostly agree that the Christians fucking sucked to the Aztecs, but to say the Aztecs were perfect angels is an oversimplification of history. Rather both of these groups acted in a way modern sociaty would see as unethical or inhumane. Which is a good thing, as it means that humanity has developed out of their old, more harsh, roots.
Trust me, I wish history was binary, or that an entire faction of people could be part of a single binary morality, like a video game, as that would mean that it would be insanely simple and easy to deal with ethical problems. But sadly, or happily, reality is kinda way more complex. A person who was raised as a Nazi could become a better person, a slave can go on a raping and pilaging raid, two factions at war with eachother could both be really bad people. They are all humans, and as a result capible of being human.
Because of that, it's complex to try to melt history into a simple binary morality tale. And also why it turns me into a fucking raving lunitic when people try to do that. Like for fuck sake, hate Christiany but don't water down the Aztecs. Let the Aztecs be the Aztecs. Fuck! I mean, come on. It's literally whitewashing, removing bad or unsavoury aspects, Aztecs culture to say they didn't do human sacrifices.