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Ok but you do realize that he was alive in the 1900s, not 1000 BC.
by saagarjha 5mo ago
Ok but you do realize that he was alive in the 1900s, not 1000 BC.
- keiferski 5mo agoThe moral views of the average person circa 1930 are very different from one today. But I read old books for their interesting stories, viewpoints on life, literary quality, etc. – not to tut-tut someone for having different moral views than me, a hundred years later. So it doesn't bother me. Like I said, I really cannot understand the mindset of someone that reads a book from another era/civilization and focuses on critiquing the author's ethics. Just feels like such a limited way to interact with the world.
- saagarjha 5mo agoPlease point to the things being described in that comment and explain what the average person in 1930 would have felt about them.
- breezybottom 5mo agoI don't see it. The 1930s weren't that long ago, there are still people alive who lived through them. If you were talking about ancient Egypt, you might have a point.
- keiferski 5mo agoThe 1930s had radically different opinions on race, gender, religion, and a host of other things as compared to today.
- breezybottom 5mo agoDefine "radical"
- keiferski 5mo agoThe world has entirely different values today than circa 1930. This is...obvious? Read a book or Wikipedia page? I don't know what else to tell you.
- breezybottom 5mo agoThe world doesn't have values, people do. And many of them are the same.
- NooneAtAll3 5mo agoit's usually inappropriate to feed a troll, but I'll just say "olympic gold champion was congratulated by literally Adolf Hitler, but not his own country the Unite States - because he was black"
- watwut 5mo agoYou had your fascists and you had your anti-fascists where antifascists were blamed for what fascists did.
- pixelatedindex 5mo agoAs a brown person in the US, I certainly would have felt a difference between then and now…
- breezybottom 5mo agoThe United States isn't the entire world.
- smogcutter 5mo agoIt is, however, the setting of On the Road.
- achenet 5mo agoI recommend you read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim, about a Black America in the early/mid 20th century. Personally speaking, I found the book very 'awe-inspiring'/it made me go 'wow' a bunch, because I found the author's experience so completely different from my own :)