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Originally Posted by Marulus
Which ones?
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Like the fact that we had such a large amount of brave, daring and smart young men who were willing and able to travel all around the world and make the whole world know about us. That they established our language as the lingua franca of international relations, including this forum. That they brought literacy to and eliminated human sacrifice in huge tracts of lands that had previously been impenetrable to civilisation. That they conquered, and yet were careful enough to record much of what they observed among native peoples for future anthropologists to muse over.
Honestly, do I
really have to spell out how heroic an achievement much of this was?!?
That some things that were done are now contributing to our present downfall is more the result of contemporary policies that allow such things to happen, and could be reversed very simply with a change in the political atmosphere.