We are innudated with color in our lives owing to electricity and advanced chemistry, two fields white men excel in. That is why we find pastels, grays, and the off whites so tasteful. We have no starvation for color.
Not so in Claudius’ time. Coming up with color in clothing, buildings, all the man made stuff was a far bigger deal to them than it is to us at present.
They needed color and strived for it the way white people usually strive for things.
History is always a conceit of the present, a consensus on a story book version of the past.
We imagine a gray past because in our time man made color is no big deal. But we still want HDTV.
The important point here is that white people do not emphasize their heritage, nor acknowledge themselves as creators of worlds. Accordingly, we feel no need for our own version of “Black History Month”.
That’s because we actually are creators of worlds, in distinction to nonwhites who always follow behind us.
It’s just illegal to mention this in a multiracial society, a tyranny where the reality of genetic racial inequality must not be acknowledged.
— Dave
#1 by YearningForFreedom on 02/27/2008 - 9:21 pm
Buckley’s dead.