Thomas Jefferson statue removed from New York City Hall after 187 years. pic.twitter.com/KAZUeIxYq9
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Posted: January 26, 2024
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From the Trenches World Report
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None who’ve had a statue carved in his or her honor was perfect, for a soul that houses greatness also houses flaws.
NYC is a suffering city. The ultra rich are seeing both the flood of the invasion of foreigners, and the expanding homeless crisis, bringing their city into struggle and demise. Could be that now, with the taking down of this statue, this piece of our history, that that suffering and those struggles will escalate, because in destroying the past our values get lost in the shuffle, and who will fight for what it does not know or love?
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I recently was listening to a round-table of anthropologists and they were addressing the implications of the statue take-downs. One pointed out that in anthropology, nostalgia plays a big part in that the remembering is the connection. And nostalgia stirs something in us that shows us our humanness. Nostalgia is also considered an important component for mental health and especially in our ability to show empathy. In recognizing the achievements or struggles of the other ignites our own awareness of our own challenges and breakthroughs. Every statue coming down is meant to diminish our humanity and to disconnect us from our journey by feeding the fires of forgetting.
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