It's 9/26 and ancient evil continues to burden us all

This is a partial reprise of a previous column, but we all need a reminder of this horrible day every year of every century, IMHO. It is a good day for a lot of thought, introspection, and more. Maybe read up on the enumerated actions and their aftermaths a bit.

This video by Xiangyu is quite worthwhile. His comparison to the Korean colonial experience is insightful. Was the memory of the brutal Japanese colonization of Taiwan lost? It prompted a number of reflections on Korean history of my own depicted below the video.

I cannot simply ignore this date, the date of the Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Castile (Spain). This treaty divvied up all newly discovered and yet undiscovered lands outside of Europe between Portugal and Castile.

The history of mankind is basically a timeline of war, from the first empires to the present. Many great civilizations, cultures, histories and knowledge down through the centuries have been lost to war. There are many examples of the victors erasing a peoples existence and replacing it with their concept of national identity. For example, The Old Testament is full of war, genocide and slaughter. History books are chronicles of war with intermittent smatterings of peace and prosperity. How much knowledge has been lost to the scourge of war? We will never know what the world has missed or how different it may have been because of the antiquities that were conquered and lost forever.

If the victor rewrites history in its favor, how can we trust anything that has been handed down to us, considering the possibility that the other side of the story may have been lost or altered for all of posterity? How much knowledge has been lost due to war, and the rewriting of history. The Library of Alexandria is just one example of ancient histories and knowledge lost to conflict. What knowledge and wisdom was lost forever in that fire of conflict? We'll never know.

In light of the currently ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and on the heels of a Great Power confrontation in Ukraine which wiped out 493,000 Ukrainians thanks to the collective West's

Here is something to consider from Portland folksinger David Rovics:

Fierce, Black, Female Warriors.
That checks almost all of the boxes for modern Identity Politics. That's why if you oppose the movie The Woman King for any reason then you are a low-life dirtbag.

Lately I've come to realize that the reason why people are so divided in this country is your high school history class.
Let me explain.
Everyone in this country is divided by identity these days. Race, gender, sexual orientation, it seems people are looking for ways to be different without actually being different. Liberals pretend that these are the only identities that matter.