Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Folly
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 17:07:52 -0500

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.

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