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@paninid

Let me tell you. 20 years ago I started making notes on human history, from everywhere, as far back as it goes. You have to do it slowly ... noone could bear to do it otherwise. Alexander was never great.

And yet, most of the people I've known have been pretty decent.
I'm thinking that most of it it has been due to a small group of power-hungry criminals.

@paninid there is more to history than joylessness.

“Everything was awesome” is dishonest obviously.

Yet pushing joy out from our shared story human story is dishonest too.

Activism without joy is ineffective for lasting change.

What is being fought for if not a life with more joy?

“We grieved in the morning, marched in the afternoon, and in the evening we danced”

- Gay activist Dan Savage on living through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.