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This is true. I suffer from English-language bias and France did not persist in the Middle East post-WWII ( many holdings ended in the 20s-30s ) , so it's easi

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Come to think of it, one could probably go with the blame back to Adam and Eve. So maybe instead of asking which particular subsets of previous generations screwed things up, we should ask ourselves why do we allow the effects of that to continue? One of my wild dreams is that one day nations and societies suddenly look back at the history of harm they did to one another and say, "So what? Fuck it, it's in the past, we have no obligation to perpetuate it."
  • webmaven 10y ago
    I read it more as identifying which cultures were to blame, rather than which people (or there descendants). Because being able to do so is the first step toward figuring out which aspects of those cultures need to be debugged. However, please don't mistake my position as one of moral relativism, or that I am advocating postmodern deconstruction.
    • tim333 10y ago
      Cultural debugging is an interesting idea.