Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The concept you speak has been called presentism. I don't know how I would have acted if I had lived in Germany during WWII. I would have been exposed to all of the cultural demons present at the time. Would I have rationalized it as many did? I don't know. I think not, but I don't know. Allan On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 02:38 PM, Henry Ting wrote: > > There's no doubt in hind-sight, we can all comfortably > be politically correct. However, I bet you, during the > Nazi era, as a German, it would also be politically > correct to be on the side of Nazism. To name a few, > the Crusades, The Roman conquest, The Britannia > empire, The Spanish conquest, Alexander the Great, and > the current era of Americana. > > We can judge it by history and the "pictorial" > presentation in archives, but let not loose sight if > we were to live in that era, the perception would be > totally different. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html