You guys ever think abt how regardless of what u do with ur lives history will not look kindly upon you because you attend one of the wealthiest universities in the worlds most powerful empire?
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You guys ever think abt how regardless of what u do with ur lives history will not look kindly upon you because you attend one of the wealthiest universities in the worlds most powerful empire?
often. but i kinda think getting caught up in hypothetical future perceptions of yourself is a waste of the privilege we've got to be here
Ya I get that. I just find it silly when people get outraged over small injustices when they live evil lives lol
Ya I get that. I just find it silly when people get outraged over relatively small shit when we live such evil lives lol
Ya it’s important to have morals and empathy. I just find people fail to have empathy for those we can’t see, and are more likely to be empathetic to those who we relate to. So like if I’m a white women in America im outraged about women’s rights, yet I’m not outraged abt the kids who built my iPhone. Thats where my issue lies.
To say that the leaders of the SDS, Peru movement, and 1968 Colombia students are looked down upon because of their student status is pretty ignorant; the students in those three instances are all seen as revolutionaries for the class(es) below them
But positively connotated does does not imply ethically correct. Forget how we view history (cause it’s flawed), I mean an independent source viewing our timeline and drawing opinions about your experience, you likely don’t live up to their ethics
Alan Turing as an example is funny because he indirectly killed a lot of axis power troops, we only see that as good because we didn’t live in Japan or Italy or Germany at that time
Not the children working in Nike sweatshops
Also ur talking about ppl who started revolutions as an example of the students. Nobody at nu doin that shit twin, we all gonna work for our dads law firm it’s fine.
turing isnt a great example, since england wasnt nearly as much of the empire that it once was by the 40s, and he was also gay and autistic which were like nuclear bombs of hinderances to a person back then, but it meant he overcame a lot personally.
Nah I don’t feel guilt abt my day to day life. I’ve been watching some history shit and I just find it crazy that not only r we a part of one of the strongest empires, but we live in a city/state with high income, AND we go to a very wealthy university. And then I thought how do I view these ppl in history? Well normally I like to root for the underdog. Idk
She makin money off them ig
First of all this whole conversation kinda depends on “what happens in the future” if we have to get specific (you mentioned Alan Turing so I’ll use that). Alan Turing is seen as important because the basis of computer science that he created positively impacts our lives, but let’s say in the future it doesn’t (hypothetical ik but bear with me). A growing concern in our country is that of a surveillance state powered by software and data. In this future Alan Turing may not be celebrated.
shouldn't we be outraged by our own propensity for evil?
But we focus on the good they dedicated their lives to, so while neu represents a lot of bad, its really more worth your time to focus on what good you can do in the world (volunteering, mutual aid, nonprofit, activism, etc)
Which is silly I’m aware it’s impossible to stack priorities of ethics
Turing is a perfect example. Elite family, great education that OP believes would be “frowned upon by history”. He was gay and likely autistic, which made his success amongst his contemporary much less likely. And yet history remembers him as one of the most intelligent and important figures in the realm of math, computer science, and physics ever.
Awful take. Plenty of history’s most influential and positively connotated figures were part of the elite of dominant empires. I would go so far as to say most. Turing, von Neumann, even as far back as Socrates, Sophocles. Just because a disproportionate number of wealthy people become negatively-connotated political figures it doesn’t mean that “history doth frown upon the wealthy and powerful” or any other dramatic bs. I think you are too self-important, perhaps
bro everyone loves wendy williams
of course, and we will always have to reckon with the fact that our empathy will never make up for the discrepancy in lived experience. but we can what-if till the cows come home but its all just a futile attempt to make ourselves feel better for not doing enough. imo we can be as pissed off that our peers don't understand the breadth of human suffering or that our grandchildren won't understand we tried our hardest but that doesn't excuse us of the obligation to try
i think what rlly matters is what actionable "good" you do with your life. Like we look fondly upon activists across history, and many of them also attended top/expensive universities, sometimes multiple.
you have more self hate than a closeted senator
what’d wendy williams do to them 😭
I say this to make the point that inventions are kind of an outlier here and depend entirely on context whether we view it as good or bad. I was making this post in more of an ethical sense. ( not that u have a moral obligation to throw ur life away, but history tends to look at those who are in positions of comfort without admiration)