> scarred a whole generation That's a rather optimistic way of putting it, unfortunately. The senseless destruction of cultural heritage that went on during th

> scarred a whole generation That's a rather optimistic way of putting it, unfortunately. The senseless destruction of cultural heritage that went on during the CR, combined with the sheer scale of it, makes it a civilizational-scale disaster. (The silver lining, I suppose, is that people are finally growing comfortable with this assessment, though for obvious reasons this is not something that will ever be admitted publicly - at least not until a _long_ time has passed from the actual events, and some sort of closure has been independently achieved.) THIS is why the title of this talk is offensive. Edit: And to be very clear about this, I'm not even assuming bad faith of any sort on the part of whoever was involved with this talk. But it's a fact that people will take offense to that title, and that this is something they should be warned about.