Over the last week or two, there has been a wide spread riot/protest around the world. The cause has already been lost in the pages and pages of rhetoric that too has been lost. The result in some parts of the world is to bring down the statues of past leaders whom the black lives matter organization and the anti-fascist organization consider offense.
These actions of destruction of statues and historical sights because they some how cause offense, is similar to the book burning book burnings in past fascist and communist countries. As such, an people that attempts to destroy their history, attempts to destroy their past, will some day destroy the people made it possible for them to protest/riot in the streets.
Democracy is fragile in the first place. It is destroyed when taken for granted. Soon the people who destroyed their past, will remember it no more as they destroy the freedoms we have in democracy because these freedoms in democracy have offended them.
This world is repeating its past and the people who are destroying the present have no idea about the past and therefore will destroy its future in spite of their understanding of what freedom and democracy are.
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