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A friend once told me why he hates Winston Churchill Friend has a shit relationship with his distant dad Dad was raised by depressed, psychotic grandma Grandma lost all her older children in Bengal famine of 1943 Churchill responsible for famine So fuck Winston Churchill https://t.co/g9Ow2iLFO5
He told me this story in a relatively comfortable and laughing way, not as a rage-monster. We spent most of the rest of the conversation discussing the viral nature of trauma, how it goes all the way back, and how we are responsible to do better for others https://t.co/bcydogFxdt
"your duty as someone further along will always be to productively process the pain forged by others, for you must own the hefty responsibility of one who nurtures an empathetic perspective on the viral nature of trauma itself" https://t.co/FX0OweOv7c
But still it’s a reminder to me of how Big History has such deep, personal, private costs. This is true of Singapore and Singaporeans too, and I feel like we never discuss it much, and when we do, it’s so superficial & trite. So instead we stress our kids https://t.co/mCiohGWbsM
