In recent times, we've witnessed the energetic rise of the idea of a new dignity of history, one that requires us to make a clean break with a past that imperfectly aligns with the moral standards of the present.
We want to hastily leave the past behind... abandoning its racism, genocide, patriarchy, colonialism, homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. We want to jettison the excesses once committed.
Disagreement with the past... is part of any cultural tradition and historical moment, the consequence of inevitable generational conflict.
The cult of monuments and their destruction, the work of building up and tearing down the past according to the parameters that guide the operation of any present, has been a constant.
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